[xfbb] 7.04o on Ubuntu 7.10

[Ray Wells]

David, and all,

I've found two things that cause problems with fbb on newer installations.

1. (K)Ubuntu has decided to use the dash shell instead of bash because 
it apparently reads scripts more quickly. However, old scripts that ran 
fine under bash are failing under dash, and it's not only fbb. Google on 
the error message.

There are two options to fix this. You can change the first line in the 
script from /bin/sh to bin/bash so it uses bash instead of the default 
shell. The other is to change the default shell to bash for the entire 
system. Google for default shell ubuntu.

2. Newer kernels now check for stack overflow and some old code is shown 
to be broken. I figured that since fbb has been "broken" for a long time 
that disabling stack checking wouldn't hurt. In 
/usr/local/src/fbbsrc.704o/src/Makefile, and near the top of the file, 
you'll see a line that starts CFLAGS. At the end of that line add 
-fno-stack-protector
Recompile.

Those two "fixes" have got me out of strife here with Kubuntu. I should 
say that the second problem only started when I compiled a more recent 
kernel - somewhere around 2.6.18, from memory. I've compiled so many 
kernels over the last 12 weeks that I just can't remember  Suddenly fbb 
failed to start.

Ray vk2tv

David Humble wrote:

>Well,  xfbb seemed to compile fine but when trying to start, I get 
>the following error:
>'/usr/local/sbin/fbb: 243: Syntax error: Bad substitution'
>
>Any pointers please?
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