Hi, There was a Debian bug reported about pioneers not building with non-bash shells (in particular dash).
I thought that I found the problem. This was incorrect. Although what I found was a bashism, it didn't actually solve the problem. Now I found another bashism, and there's not much we can do about it. The problem is in /usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh, from gnome-common. The problem is that it uses a variable which may not be defined. Actually it looks like they don't mean to use it anyway (it's about AUTOMAKE_VERSION, while they only use REQUIRED_AUTOMAKE_VERSION elsewhere). Now, the simplest way to go would be to file a bug against gnome-common (which I will do) and wait for it to be fixed. However, given that I still didn't get a response to my previous bug report to them (#318424, a year ago), I'm afraid the "waiting" part will take too long. So we can implement a workaround, which is pretty easy (if the variable is defined, there is no problem). It just results in some "junk" in debian/rules (only a single line, really). If anyone has something to say about this, please do. If not, I'll prepare a package including the workaround. On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:11:36PM +0200, Roland Clobus wrote: > On Friday 14 July 2006 10:50, Julien Danjou wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:07:44AM +0200, Bas Wijnen wrote: > > > Any pointers of where to fix this (or ways to reproduce it) would be > > > welcome. > > > > You can reproduce it by linking /bin/sh to dash. > > However I did not look where is the code in fault of this error. > > I tried to reproduce this, but could not. Perhaps you have an old version of gnome-common? I'm using 2.12.0-2. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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