Fix dbus to use /bin/sh

Adam Weinberger adamw at magnesium.net
Sun Apr 3 19:54:44 PDT 2005


On Sun, 2005-03-04 at 22:28 -0400, jimmie james wrote:
> In ports/devel/dbus/Makefile we find "BUILD_DEPENDS?=       
> bash:${PORTSDIR}/shells/bash" which is a new build depend.
> 
> According to: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus  the only
> depend is a XML parser "D-BUS' only *required* dependency is an XML
> parser (either libxml or expat)."
> 
> No notice of change on the freedesktop site, or /usr/ports/UPDATING.
> 
> Why are we using GNU shells, when /bin/sh is/should be standard on every system?
> 
> Related links:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1172
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1674

On FreeBSD, /bin/sh is Ash. FreeBSD does not ship with BAsh. On
Linux, /bin/sh is BAsh. The Linux world likes to assume that if it works
on Linux, it will work on anything (or they don't care).

Fd.o doesn't say that it needs BAsh, because they assume that /bin/sh
*IS* BAsh.

# Adam


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