Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Getting bash syntax error with latest GIT

[Tony Theodore]

On 15 Jan 2014, at 00:20, Bernd Kosmahl <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi list,
> went for sdl2 again and did a git pull on master before. Now no package 
> builds any more. Any package dies with a bash syntax error like that:
> 
> bash: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> bash: -c: line 0: `echo 
> '------------------------------------------------------------'; echo '[log]   
>    /home/beko/mxe-git/log/libiconv'; echo; (echo; find 
> '/home/beko/mxe-git/tmp-libiconv' -name 'config.log' -print -exec cat    {} 
> \;; echo; echo 'settings.mk'; cat './settings.mk'; ) >> 
> '/home/beko/mxe-git/log/20140114_135005/libiconv_i686   -pc-mingw32'; exit 1; 
> fi'
> make: [/home/beko/mxe-git/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/installed/libiconv] Error 1 
> (ignored)
> [done]     libiconv
> 
> I tried "make clean".
> I tried 'rm ./settings.mk'
> 
> I could build again going back to commit 
> 92124865e0b183251e442dd1d210a2fea8cbae8b
> 
> The trouble starts with commit 109be23726df4fde5b5ef35fcf946d4753c167e6 
> (Subject: Merge branch 'master' into verbose )
> 
> My bash version is:
> 
> address@hidden:~/mxe-git$ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 4.1.5(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
> on a Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
> 
> Do you need further information|debugoutput to fix this or are you dropping 
> support for bash 4.1.5? :)

Still supporting bash 3.2.51;) but I think it’s more an issue with recursive 
`make` calls. I’ve reverted the commit till I’ve had time to investigate:

https://github.com/mxe/mxe/commit/e17929f62d04e65f913234c48f898618f550f3f4

Cheers,

Tony