Re: [Sawfish] Libtool errors for librep 0.92.2 compilation

[Christopher Roy Bratusek <nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 04 September 2012 01:08:15 Rafal Kolanski wrote:

> On 24/08/12 06:48, Tomasz Gajewski wrote:

> > Christopher Roy Bratusek <nano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> >> You can either do:

> >>

> >> ./autogen [configureflags]

> >>

> >> or

> >>

> >> make SHELL=/bin/bash

> >

> > I've just came across this problem and found another workaround:

> >

> > export CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/bash"

> >

> > This allows to build from deb src packages from:

> >

> > deb-src http://apt.nanolx.org/ photonic main

> >

> > without any other problems.

>

> Thank you, that helps a lot.

>

> However, I still think that if Makedefs.in requests /bin/sh for the

> shell, and then we end up using bash-only features, then that is not

> quite right. All it takes is changing one line, and librep builds

> without any surprises (dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot):

>

> --- a/Makedefs.in

> +++ b/Makedefs.in

> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@

>

> version=@version@

> libversion=@libversion@

> -SHELL=/bin/sh

> +SHELL=/bin/bash

>

> Is there any reason that that this is not desired behaviour?

>

> Sincerely,

>

> Rafal Kolanski.

 

The reason why we call /bin/sh is, that this bug is not caused by bashisms from Sawfish, it's a bug in autoconf. Using Bash is just a work-around for faulty autoconf versions.

 

Regards

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