Re: bootstrap: Portability issue on FreeBSD.

2013-03-08 Thread Paul Eggert
I keep meaning to try to switch to Gary's version but in the meantime I pushed the following; hope it fixes things for you. >From 3dc082ab56c560491c42c12c41755d099fe1cafe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:40:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: port to FreeBSD *

Re: bootstrap: Portability issue on FreeBSD.

2013-03-08 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
Hi Mats, On 8 Mar 2013, at 21:04, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > the bootstrap script contains a hardcoded call to 'sh', > which renders the self-bootstraping unusable on FreeBSD > and DragonFlyBSD. Or you could use my bootstrap rewrite (as used by GNU Libtool, GNU M4, GNU Zile, lua-stdlib, luapos

Re: bootstrap: Portability issue on FreeBSD.

2013-03-08 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 03/08/2013 02:04 PM, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Hello there, > > the bootstrap script contains a hardcoded call to 'sh', > which renders the self-bootstraping unusable on FreeBSD > and DragonFlyBSD. The reason is that the default Bourne > shell on these systems handles the crucial invocation

bootstrap: Portability issue on FreeBSD.

2013-03-08 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello there, the bootstrap script contains a hardcoded call to 'sh', which renders the self-bootstraping unusable on FreeBSD and DragonFlyBSD. The reason is that the default Bourne shell on these systems handles the crucial invocation $ /bin/sh -c 'echo "$1 --> $2"' -- old new new --> by re