Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> writes: >> resulting in the --enable-dash option going away, >> because it will just be used on platforms where pkgsrc knows that >> /bin/sh is not ok? > > No, I'll leave --with-dash. For example, on OSX the default bootstrap > shell will be /bin/bash, but users may want to use --with-dash to get > a much faster shell. I'll certainly be doing this for my bulk builds. > > It's also useful on Debian/Ubuntu where their dash (/bin/sh) doesn't > have the octal patch we include so cannot be used for bootstrap. I don't object, but those sound like good reasons to make using dash on those platforms the default. Any reason not to?
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