Re: suitable shells for bootstrapping pkgsrc

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

On Jun 26, 2015, at 2:06 PM, David Holland wrote:
> Both bash and dash ought to work. So the question is what the
> bootstrap script has been imbibing…

Well, the test seems to be whether the shell's echo command is BSD-compatible.  Apparently the dash echo is not.

Knowing that bash should be ok, I set SH to point to it and all is now good (i.e., pkgsrc is bootstrapped).  Note that it was not sufficient to just start bash as a subshell and run bootstrap within it; setting the environment variable was necessary.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Brook