On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails.gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As the OP of this advice, I'll say this: I think this was a fairly old
> post. Indeed, the dash startup time is 'significantly' shorter than bash,
> or so I've been told (which is the reason it was made the default /bin/sh in
> Ubuntu). However, I've never seen any real difference since switching over
> to bash (or since switching back to dash).
>
> That said, #!/bin/sh was used explicitly instead of /bin/bash in Amber
> because we wanted to avoid requiring bash in obscure systems (in the spirit
> of generality). However, bash allows a lot of syntax that is not strictly
> POSIX-compliant. Since most systems that I've come into contact with (most
> Linux distros, Mac, and Cygwin) use bash as the default /bin/sh, bash is
> typically the shell used to debug/validate any shell script.
>
> An effort has been made to rewrite the non-POSIX compliant parts of the
> Amber-distributed scripts so that it'll work with (hopefully) any valid
> /bin/sh (meaning, in practice, that developers using Ubuntu get it to work
> with dash). Later AmberTools distributions (i.e. 1.4, 1.5 and Amber 11)
> *should* be dash-compliant such that this advice is no longer necessary, but
> I don't think these issues were worth considering "bugs" worthy of a patch
> in Amber10/AmberTools 1.2.
>
> Also, as I recall, Amber was not the only package to make this mistake; so
> part of the reason I suggested this approach was to solve related issues in
> other comp. chem. packages other users would try to install.
As a matter of fact, while using debian wheezy amd64, I was able to
use antechamber in ambertoools1.2 by pointing (temporarily) sh to
bash. Thanks.
As to ambertools1.5, I am waiting until compilation with cgg/fortran
4.6 is made available. Currently, as I posted, it is not possible (nor
with ambertools1.2; in fact I copied to wheezy an installation of
amber10 in previous debian lenny amd64.
francesco pietra
>
> All the best,
> Jason
>
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Francesco Pietra <chiendarret.gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I am at amber10/ambertools1.2 with Denian amd64 wheezy and met the
>> same issue discussed below on the Amber web site:
>>
>>
>> As for confirmation about /bin/sh, I too use Ubuntu. The first thing I did
>> when I began setting up my environment was to redirect /bin/sh to /bin/bash
>> rather than /bin/dash, since it causes a lot of headaches. You could, of
>> course, go through the Amber source tree and change #!/bin/sh to
>> #!/bin/bash
>> to make it use the proper shell, but this issue is pervasive enough that I
>> think it is worth changing /bin/sh permanently.
>>
>> If you google "Bad fd number", you will see countless hits of people saying
>> "Ubuntu links /bin/sh to dash rather than bash." (since /bin/sh is a
>> symbolic link to /bin/dash). The almost unanimous fix for this issue is
>> something along the lines of "sudo rm /bin/sh; sudo ln -s /bin/bash
>> /bin/sh"
>> to make /bin/sh point to /bin/bash. It would be worth seeing if this fixes
>> the issue.
>>
>> Any script that uses #!/bin/csh should be fine since it explicitly calls
>> cshell as long as you have cshell installed (which Ubuntu does NOT come
>> with
>> by default, but can be obtained via apt-get install csh). Same with
>> #!/bin/bash.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Jason
>>
>> The suggestion helps but the solution should be quite another. /bin/sh
>> was made dash because it is smaller and faster. In a code uses bash,
>> it had to state that explicitly. One can't imagine if it is bash or
>> something else. In my view the solution is to fix the buggy script.
>>
>> thanks
>> francesco pietra
>>
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