FYI: dovecot (008632bdfd2c) compilation woes, and minor glitch regarding update-version.sh

[Michael Grimm]

Greg Rivers <gcr+dovecot at tharned.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, May 09, 2015 22:25:48 Michael Grimm wrote:

>>> or just try if it works if you change it to /bin/sh and use whatever
>>> FreeBSD has that pointing to.

>> That fails because /bin/sh equals /bin/csh at FBSD.

> I don't know if it fails or not, but if it does this is not the reason.  
> /bin/sh most certainly is not /bin/csh;

Ups. Yes, that is correct. Sorry, my fault.

> if it were, the system would not boot 
> given that all the rc start-up scripts are written in Bourne shell.

But here I will insist on /bin/sh != /bin/bash ;-) The FBSD OS is bourne free, if I am not mistaken again.

> OTOH, /bin/csh and /bin/tcsh are identical:
> 
> 108 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   382368 Nov 11 15:03 /bin/csh*
> 118 -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   142184 Nov 11 15:03 /bin/sh*
> 108 -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel   382368 Nov 11 15:03 /bin/tcsh*

ls -al /bin/sh /usr/local/bin/bash (FBSD 10.1-STABLE):
| -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  uarch 142144 May  8 13:57 /bin/sh
| -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  uarch 895712 May  8 13:09 /usr/local/bin/bash

JFTR: Both scripts fail to run with FBSD's /bin/sh (lot of syntax errors), but run to completion when modifying the first line to "#!/usr/local/bin/bash" (needed, because ports are installed into /usr/local).

Regards,
Michael