On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Walt Scrivens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> echo $0 gives "bash"
>
> ls -lah /bin/sh gives "dash"
>
> The GUI User Settings application gives /bin/bash as the shell for my 
> username.
>
> So, I think I'm running bash.  Why, then does bitbake complain that I'm 
> running dash???  Maybe bitbake logs in a new job and it gets the default 
> shell from /bin/sh?
> Can I safely ignore this?
> Maybe change /bin/sh to point to bash?

Thats what I had to do.  It worked for me.

sudo ln -s /bin/sh /bin/bash

should do it.



>
> Walt
>
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Felipe Navarrete wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Walt Scrivens <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I don't now exactly how to do that.  I tried
>>>
>>> su -s /bin/bash walts
>>>
>>> and it worked as far as I could tell, but the results of bitbake aren't any 
>>> different.  I still get a warning message about using dash.
>>> How do I know what shell I'm running?
>>
>> ls -lah /bin/sh
>>
>> should be a symbolic link to dash or bash.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Walt
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 10, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>>>
>>>>      BTW, I found out it pays to specify the shell you want to run.
>>>> For instance sh in some machines is but an alias to bash, but in
>>>> others it is an alias to dash. Or even *gasp* the real bourne shell
>>>> itself. I have been bitten by that a few times...
>>>
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>> ls -lah /bin/sh
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