Re: [Banshee-List] can't build cvs

["Josiah Ritchie" <josiah ritchie gmail com>]

On 9/20/06, Joel Stanley <joel stanley adelaide edu au> wrote:
> On 9/20/06, Josiah Ritchie <josiah ritchie gmail com> wrote:
>
> > > Err, I meant autogen.sh, not gnome-autogen.sh. Anyway, dash doesn't have
> > > those builtins. Is this worth filing a bug over?
> >
> > Are you saying that Bash in Edgy doesn't have pushd and popd builtin?
> > That sounds like an Edgy bug to me.
>
> Edgy uses dash for /bin/sh, "a POSIX-compliant implementation of
> /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without
> sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster
> than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks."
>
> I don't know about the push/popd instructions specifically, but
> there's a fair amount of scripts out there that point to /bin/sh, but
> use syntax specific to bash. Have a search around for 'bashism'.
>
> Regarding pushd and popd, they appear to work on my edgy system.

Oh, cool. Thanks for sharing. I thought dash was just a typo. :-)
Sorry about that.

JSR/

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