Re: [AD] Web building make_feed problems

[Peter Wang <novalazy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-12-18, Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz <gradha@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Setting up the machine for the mirrors I got into problems running  
> make_feed. It breaks down in line 54 when it tries to retrieve the  
> date. The boring shell error is:
> 
> local: 89: 18:58:27+11:00: bad variable name
> 
> Something is missing escape characters. I'm running GNU Make 3.81,  
> date GNU coreutils 6.10, and most likely the problem is the shell, sh  
> pointing to dash 0.5.4. If I modify the script to point to /bin/bash  
> instead of /bin/sh, everything seems to work.
> 
> Presumably dash is a POSIX shell, but I'm not that interested into  
> filing bugs for such things, they are terribly unpleasant. Not sure if  
> this is of any importance.

Reproduced here.  I have to conclude it's a bug in dash's treatment of
local var=... as it works fine with ash-0.4.0.  Worked around.

> If it is not a problem, add .DELETE_ON_ERROR to the Makefile, so it  
> won't generate bad xml if something fails in the middle.

Thanks, will do.

Peter