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Re: suitable shells for bootstrapping pkgsrc



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 01:55:51PM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
 > I am trying to install pkgsrc on a system the provides the
 > following shells: bash, dash, and tcsh.  The pkgsrc bootstrap
 > script reports that none are BSD-compatible and therefore quits.
 > What shells are suitable?  Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Both bash and dash ought to work. So the question is what the
bootstrap script has been imbibing...

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David A. Holland
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