Re: GNU APL now requires bash shell and in-tree builds

[Alexander Shendi]

Dear list,

I tried out SVN 1468, but still had to modify the following files
*   . /configure (replace "source" with ".")
*   . /src/main.cc (replace "bind" with "::bind" on line 300

Thanks in advance for your help.

/Alexander

Am 11. April 2021 15:26:44 MESZ schrieb "Callahan, Brian Robert" 
<callab5@rpi.edu>:
>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
>Office: Lally 304

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