Re: make not expanding variables

[Vance Turnewitsch]

Hello all,
Thanks for all the information and guidance on the issue. With your help, I
was able to build the system.

Vance


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-08-09 at 19:42 -0400, David Boyce wrote:
> > Given that the OP is on Ubuntu, and if we stipulate for
> > the sake of the argument that dash is broken, then setting SHELL to
> > bash seems preferable to any other alternative such as zsh.
>
> I definitely agree that bash is preferable to zsh (or csh or whatever)
> since zsh is even father from POSIX than bash.
>
> But I don't agree to that stipulation, since I've been using Ubuntu for
> production work since 2007 writing scripts in /bin/sh and haven't run
> into problems in dash.  Of course bugs exist everywhere (even in bash!),
> so YMMV for sure :-).
>
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