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GNU APL now requires bash shell and in-tree builds


From: Callahan, Brian Robert
Subject: GNU APL now requires bash shell and in-tree builds
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 13:26:44 +0000

Hello --

In fixing Alexander's issue, I found these lines in the GNU APL Makefile I have never seen before:
buildtag.hh: Makefile buildtag.sh
        source ${top_srcdir}/buildtag.sh
        touch $@

The source command is a bash built-in and won't work on other shells, like OpenBSD ksh.

Additionally, even with bash, this command does not work if doing an out-of-tree build, which is the way I have always built GNU APL and which autotools are supposed to make easy to do.

Thanks.

~Brian


Brian Robert Callahan, Ph.D.
Lecturer, ITWS@RPI
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