[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Bash Dependency in build system

[Bill Ott]

I happen to be working on this as well.  For bash, I've simply symlinked 
/bin/bash.
Other items you'll run into include the lack of strndup for FreeBSD, and 
my current hurdle, trying to track down libdbdpgsql.


Jason Stephenson said the following on 03/26/2007 02:29 PM:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still plugging away at getting Evergreen to work on FreeBSD.
>
> I have now made it to where I think I can try installing 
> Evergreen/OpenILS itself.
>
> The first thing that I have noticed is that the build system depends 
> on bash being installed and that bash is installed in /bin. The 
> following scripts have that dependency:
>
> ./Evergreen/src/support-scripts/eg_gen_overdue.sh
> ./config.sh
> ./install.sh
> ./Open-ILS/examples/oils_ctl.sh
> ./Open-ILS/src/extras/import/cleanse-usmarc.sh
> ./Open-ILS/src/extras/import/extract-holdings.sh
> ./Open-ILS/src/extras/autogen.sh
> ./Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/external/dtd2js.sh
> ./Open-ILS/xul/staff_client/external/prune_dirs.sh
> ./OpenSRF/bin/osrf_ctl.sh
>
> Additionally, many of the scripts contain bashisms that are not 
> portable to normal sh syntax. In the short term, I am going to install 
> bash and sed the she-bang path to point at /usr/local/bin/bash. In the 
> long term, I think it would be helpful if the above scripts were done 
> in portable sh syntax. I have not looked at nor tried to run them all 
> as of this writing, but I'm willing to do whatever work is necessary 
> to make them portable and send patches to whomever wants them.
>
> Cheers,
> Jason