Re: dash 0.5.13 configure config.status truncated running under dash 0.5.13

[email protected] Mon, 29 Sep 2025 03:15:02 -0600
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
Organization Systematic Software
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 2025-09-28 23:01, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Brian Inglis wrote:
>>
>> Package dash 0.5.13 configure and build seems to run okay with previous dash
>> 0.5.12 == /bin/sh but rebuilding under latest dash 0.5.13 == /bin/sh fails in
>> configure running config.status at line 665 due to truncation at line defining
> 
> Thanks for the report.  There has been two fixes since 0.5.13
> that may fix this, please apply those patches and try again:
> 
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dash/patch/[email protected]/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/dash/patch/[email protected]/
> 
> If it still fails please let me know.
> 
> I tried to reproduce this but I couldn't even without those two
> patches.

Applied and rebuilt, getting the same failure with identical ERROR messages and 
symptoms, after building okay with previous dash == sh, then rerunning with 
latest dash == sh.

Do the previously highlighted configure script last two config.status generation 
stanzas seem to have issues, or is that as intended?

It appears that the following _ACEOF\ncat >>$CONFIG_STATUS ... might be 
misplaced, as it is immediately followed by a list of sed commands.

These stanzas come from /usr/share/autoconf{,2.7}/autoconf/status.m4
included by /usr/share/autoconf{,2.7}/autoconf/autoconf.m4 frozen in
/usr/share/autoconf{,2.7}/autoconf/autoconf.m4f.

Or is this an issue that should be raised with the autoconf/autotools team?

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
dash-0.5.13-2-compile.log (text/plain, 6.4 KB) 
cygport 0.37.2 

PF = dash-0.5.13-2
S = /usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13
B = /usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build
D = /usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/inst
C = /usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13/CYGWIN-PATCHES
T = /usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/temp
CBUILD = x86_64-pc-cygwin
CHOST = x86_64-pc-cygwin
CTARGET = x86_64-pc-cygwin
CC = gcc
CFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
CPPFLAGS =
CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Werror=return-type -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
F77 = gfortran
FFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
FC = gfortran
FCFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
GOC = gccgo
GOFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
OBJC = gcc
OBJCFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
OBJCXX = g++
OBJCXXFLAGS = -ggdb -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror=format-security -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Werror=return-type -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/build=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2 -ffile-prefix-map=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13=/usr/src/debug/dash-0.5.13-2
LDFLAGS = -static-libgcc
LIBS =
MAKEOPTS = -j 5


autoreconf-2.72: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf-2.72: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf-2.72: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf-2.72: running: aclocal --force 
autoreconf-2.72: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf-2.72: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf-2.72: configure.ac: not using Intltool
autoreconf-2.72: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc
autoreconf-2.72: running: /usr/bin/autoconf-2.72 --force
autoreconf-2.72: running: /usr/bin/autoheader-2.72 --force
autoreconf-2.72: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
autoreconf-2.72: './install-sh' is updated
autoreconf-2.72: Leaving directory '.'
/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13/configure --srcdir=/usr/src/dash/dash-0.5.13-2.x86_64/src/dash-0.5.13 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/share/doc/dash --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/dash/html -C
configure: loading site script /etc/config.site
configure: creating cache config.cache
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configure: creating ./config.status
./config.status: 665: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
*** ERROR: configure failed