Comment 21 for bug 61463

This also breaks building glibc (specifically, as part of the GP2X development kit, but it's basically a wget and make on glibc, gcc, etc. sources with flags for cross-compiling to ARM), because dash's “echo” built-in behaves differently from the GNU /bin/echo (which bash's built-in emulates more accurately), causing it to generate a syntatically incorrect version header file.

Let's re-iterate here: “average” users don't have a hope in hell of working out that things-expecting-bash-get-dash (or its built-ins) is the problem, let alone fixing it. Ubuntu is supposed to be a distribution for “average” users. Those of you who want to be pedants about standards for the excuse of feeling good about yourself, or microscopic speed gains, please go help Gentoo. This is the kind of unproductive stupidity I'd expect from them.