LFS-SVN: 6.9. Glibc-2.7

[Jonathan Oksman]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I cut off part of your original message that I wished I hadn't. If, at
>  the time of building glibc, /bin/sh points to dash, then configure
>  will search for a bash program and set the variable BASH to that
>  location. So, in the dash building glibc case, you'll always end up
>  with /bin/bash in ldd.
>
>  In the case where /bin/sh is /bin/bash, configure thinks you're
>  overriding the location of bash since bash itself sets BASH=/bin/sh.
>  This has been fixed upstream to use a different variable (BASH_PROG
>  maybe?) where you'd really have to set the variable to override the
>  configure search.
>

Ooooh, I see what you mean now.  hmm.  I'll see if I can dig deep
enough to find out then.  I'll be rebuilding another glibc tomorrow
anyway.  Thanks for the clarification Dan!