Re: Build of attr fails with non-bash shell

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andreas Enge <address@hidden> skribis:

> Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2012 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
>> For this and related issues, I’m attempting in the ‘core-updates’ branch
>> to allow builds without /bin/sh in the chroot.  Instead, builds use the
>> Bash binary that’s explicitly passed as an input.
>
> If it can be done, this would be a nice feature. I wondered if one could
> simply add "bash" to the inputs, but this is clearly not enough since it
> does not yet imply that bash is used during the build.

Right.  The difficulty is that many scripts use #!/bin/sh, and some
programs (glibc, awk, etc.) have functions that explicitly launch /bin/sh.

Ludo’.