Re: Libtool errors for librep 0.92.2 compilation

On Tuesday 04 September 2012 01:08:15 Rafal Kolanski wrote:
> On 24/08/12 06:48, Tomasz Gajewski wrote:
> > Christopher Roy Bratusek <[email protected]> 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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