[Lustre-discuss] Build lustre 2.6 Client on Debian Wheezy

[E.S. Rosenberg]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Dilger, Andreas
<andreas.dilger at intel.com> wrote:
> On 2015/01/07, 4:33 AM, "Kilian Cavalotti"
> <kilian.cavalotti.work at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Bonjour Thierry,
>>
>>> /bin/sh: 1: [: -lt: unexpected operator
>>
>>I'm pretty sure that's because in Debian, /bin/sh is linked to dash
>>and the Lustre build script expects bash.
>>
>>You can try to run:
>># dpkg-reconfigure dash
>>choose No to link /bin/sh to bash, and re-run the make-kpkg part.
>>Hopefully it will work better.
>>
>>I suggest to re-run "dpkg-reconfigure dash" afterwards to restore dash
>>as the default shell.
>
> Which script is under discussion here?  Definitely we've assumed bash is
> available, and use bashisms heavily in the testing scripts, since bash
> is standard on Linux.
>
> If there are are a limited number of places where /bin/sh is assumed to be
> /bin/bash then it makes sense to fix them so that Debian builds work
> without users having to change their config.  Is this just a matter of
> using "#!/bin/bash" explicitly in these scripts, or should they be changed
> to conform to POSIX sh behaviour?
It seems to me that if you are using bashisms you should also
explicitly use bash and not sh which may or may not link to bash....
HTH,
Eli
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> --
> Andreas Dilger
>
> Lustre Software Architect
> Intel High Performance Data Division
>
>
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