March gcc 3.0 and 3.1 Bootstraps Fail 34% of Time

Neil Booth neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk
Mon Apr 2 23:50:00 GMT 2001


Zack Weinberg wrote:-

> There is a nice fringe benefit: shell scripts will all run at least
> twice as fast.  But be careful, doing this can break system scripts.
> Debian's are pretty good, and still I file a couple of bugs every
> month due to bashisms in init.d or post-install scripts or whatever.

I think I'll install ash too.  I've noticed quite a few Debian 
ChangeLogs recently talking about removing bashisms; I assume some
were found by you :-)

Neil.



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