Mercurial > hg > aboriginal
changeset 339:82e8b8e38dd2
A note about building old versions under Ubuntu 7.04 or later.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Sat, 31 May 2008 18:16:56 -0500 |
parents | 01b25c2cf04d |
children | 595332f94fea |
files | www/downloads/README |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/www/downloads/README Fri May 30 13:19:37 2008 -0500 +++ b/www/downloads/README Sat May 31 18:16:56 2008 -0500 @@ -1,3 +1,17 @@ +A note about building old versions under Ubuntu 7.04 or later: +-------------------------------------------------------------- + + Ubuntu 7.04 broke the /bin/sh symlink to point to the Defective Annoying + Shell (dash), which can't run the FWL scripts. + + FWL 0.2.2 and later work around this bug in Ubuntu by explicitly saying + #!/bin/bash at the start of each script. To build older FWL versions + under new Ubuntu versions, you'll have to change the "#!/bin/sh" lines + at the start of each FWL script to say "#!/bin/bash" instead. + + Other Linux distributions do not exhibit this bug. (Even MacOS X has + /bin/sh point to bash, despite using a different login shell by default.) + Contents of the Firmware Linux download directory. --------------------------------------------------