Bug#373666: autogen: FTBFS: bashisms in build commands

2006-06-17 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 09:16:21AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: > So, you are having some sort of problem, but it has been mischaracterized. > It is not due to shell script syntax. Possible, I did not have a deep look at it, and I have probably misunderstood the problem. I am forwarding the full build

Bug#373666: autogen: FTBFS: bashisms in build commands

2006-06-17 Thread Bruce Korb
No, if you want to use bash, you have to build-depends on it and call it explicitely (and not /bin/sh). /bin/sh is a symlink to any POSIX compliant shell (like dash), not to a Bourn compatible shell. Hi Julien, The script in question is POSIX compliant. In fact it is Bourne-compliant, which is

Bug#373666: autogen: FTBFS: bashisms in build commands

2006-06-17 Thread Julien Danjou
On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:29:02AM -0700, Bruce Korb wrote: Hi Bruce, > The build of AutoGen _does_ require a Bourne compatible shell. > There are some bootstrap scripts also that require BASH, but these > are completely unnecessary for anyone not building from CVS. > I have now modified "config/

Bug#373666: autogen: FTBFS: bashisms in build commands

2006-06-17 Thread Bruce Korb
Hello Julien, The build of AutoGen _does_ require a Bourne compatible shell. There are some bootstrap scripts also that require BASH, but these are completely unnecessary for anyone not building from CVS. I have now modified "config/bootstrap" to check for bash and rerun itself if the shell is no

Bug#373666: autogen: FTBFS: bashisms in build commands

2006-06-14 Thread Bruce Korb
Hi Julien, Julien Danjou wrote: Package: autogen Version: 1:5.8.3-2 Severity: important Hello, There was a problem while autobuilding your package: make[3]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/autogen-5.8.3/xml2ag' top_builddir=.. top_srcdir=.. PATH=`cd ../columns;pwd`:$PATH ; export top_bui

Bug#373666: autogen: FTBFS: bashisms in build commands

2006-06-14 Thread Julien Danjou
Package: autogen Version: 1:5.8.3-2 Severity: important Hello, There was a problem while autobuilding your package: > Automatic build of autogen_1:5.8.3-2 on avidan by sbuild/i386 0.46 > Build started at 20060614-2346 >