Re: MAKE errors when trying to compile in Ubuntu 9.10

Harley Laue <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.x8086
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 01:25:28AM -0500, Dieter R Kedrowitsch wrote:
> > Greetings!  I am trying to compile ELKS from the archive
> > elks-0.1.3.tar.gz and I am experiencing an error during make that I have
> > never seen before.  I am using bin86 0.16.17 on a pretty much stock
> > installation of Ubuntu 9.10.
> >
> > This is just a small snippet of an error that is repeated many times
> > when I run make to 'make dep'.
> >
> > printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value
> > printf: 1: $[0x000103-1]: expected numeric value
>
> This looks like your shell doesn't like some particular printf syntax.
> Doesn't Ubuntu use dash as /bin/sh? Try setting it to bash

 I can confirm this on Debian with dash. The problem goes away as soon as
/bin/sh is switched from dash to bash.
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