Can someone please explain how ports/devel/automake/1.11/patches/patch-lib_am_header-vars_am works with /usr/local/share/aclocal-1.11/install-sh.m4 (note that it results in ${SHELL} ${SHELL} install-sh)?
---------------------------- revision 1.1 date: 2011/05/18 19:38:15; author: matthieu; state: Exp; Use ${SHELL} to run install-sh since it may not be executable. ok phessler@, landry@ who did run this through a full ports build. ============================================================================= This causes my install targets to run /bin/sh /bin/sh /home/jreed/foo/install-sh resulting in: /bin/sh[2]: syntax error: `(' unexpected I am using autoconf-2.68 and automake-1.11.1p2 from ports and I am attempting to port a software to OpenBSD in preparation to make a port. You can see the shell is repeated in the definition below. $ cat src/Makefile.am SUBDIRS = lib bin $ head -4 install-sh #!/bin/sh # install - install a program, script, or datafile scriptversion=2009-04-28.21; # UTC $ grep ^install_sh src/Makefile install_sh_DATA = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c -m 644 install_sh_PROGRAM = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c install_sh_SCRIPT = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c install_sh = ${SHELL} /home/jreed/foo/install-sh Here is the problem (that I don't see on other systems with various versions of automake/autoconf) introduced in the patch above: $ grep ^install_sh src/Makefile.in install_sh_DATA = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c -m 644 install_sh_PROGRAM = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c install_sh_SCRIPT = ${SHELL} $(install_sh) -c install_sh = @install_sh@ Also the patch in patch-automake_in also causes the same problem for me: - define_variable ('mkinstalldirs', '$(install_sh) -d', INTERNAL); + define_variable ('mkinstalldirs', '$(SHELL) $(install_sh) -d', INTERNAL); Is there some workaround you can suggest I need? Note that the cvs log message said the patch was run through a full ports build, but this only is used when using automake. So only ports that use automake (most ports do not since the probably use the pre-generated Makefile.in files provided by the upstream distfile) and use the standard install-sh shell script would have a problem -- or I am misunderstanding something. If the install-sh is not executable maybe fix that instead of running /bin/sh /bin/sh install-sh. Thanks, Jeremy C. Reed echo 'EhZ[h ^jjf0%%h[[Zc[Z_W$d[j%Xeeai%ZW[ced#]dk#f[d]k_d%' | \ tr '#-~' '\-.-{'