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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">Another nice thing with mksh is that it's the default shell in Android since Ice cream sandwich.</DIV></DIV>
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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Från: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:patrick@gentoo.org">Patrick Lauer</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Skickat: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">2013-05-31 02:25</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Till: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif"><A href="mailto:aboriginal@lists.landley.net">aboriginal@lists.landley.net</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Ämne: </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,sans-serif">[Aboriginal] Replacing bash with mksh</SPAN><BR><BR></DIV>Hi everyone,<BR><BR>Just for fun (and to see how everything works) I've patched the build<BR>scripts and successfully built the Aboriginal images with mksh instead<BR>of bash. Because we can, and because bash 2 is so old and crufty.<BR><BR>mksh is the MirBSD Korn Shell ( https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm ), it<BR>has an active upstream, a nice license and has proven portability to<BR>lots of weird architectures and operating systems.<BR><BR>The attached patch shows some not-so-good assumptions in the package<BR>name and version handling. Took me a while to figure out why the tarball<BR>was "not found" :)<BR>And I disabled distcc building because I had some really weird build<BR>failures that I haven't tracked down yet.<BR><BR>Have fun,<BR><BR>Patrick<BR></BODY></HTML>