[Bf-committers] FFMPEG compile error (ubuntu Feisty)

[Mathias Panzenböck]

Under Ubuntu /bin/sh is NOT bash. It's dash, which is another sh compatible shell.

It is sh compatible, not bash compatible. A lot of people do not know what things 
actually are bash extensions to the sh syntax and therefore every now and then you 
stumble over a shell script that does not work with Ubuntu. (The kopete LaTeX plugin 
was one of those.) Replacing the shebang with #!/bin/bash should work.

The reason for the switch was that bash was to slow and big. (Don't ask me for what 
bash is to slow/big. Mac OS X uses bash too and Mac OS X is waaaay faster than Linux 
in terms of startup/shutdown time. So it makes no sense to use dash for the init 
scripts. And where else should such a little speed improvement matter?)

See:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh

	-panzi

David Linton wrote:
> it looks like bash
> 
> On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Peter Schlaile <peter at schlaile.de 
> <mailto:peter at schlaile.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>      > im having trouble compiling Blender with FFMPEG set to true on
>     Ubuntu Feisty
>      > Fawn
>      > it compiles alright with it set off but yeah...i have no idea!
>      > here is pastebin with error:
>      > http://pastebin.ca/934941
> 
>     looks like your /bin/sh is somewhat, screwed.
> 
>     Reason: calling
> 
>     sh configure ...ffmpeg-switches...
> 
>     within extern/ffmpeg breaks for you.
> 
>     Are you using bash or a different shell?
> 
>     Sincerely,
>     Peter