[bug-patch] Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

[Claudio Fontana]

Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Saturday 14 November 2009 13:22:38 Claudio Fontana wrote:
> > I also got a compilation failure of the new version on sparc Solaris 10.
> >
> > After I configure when I try to make the generated Makefile, I get:
> >
> > $ make
> > make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 49: Unexpected end of line seen
> >
> > If I use GNU make I get
> >
> > $ gmake
> > ./update-version.sh: syntax error at line 24: `(' unexpected
> > gmake: *** [VERSION] Error 2
> >
> > Are you using GNU make-specific features and/or bashisms in the
> > executed shell-scripts?
>
> GNU make-specific features: apparently yes; let's see if we can work around 
> it. The update-version.sh shouldn't have any bashisms, it's probably something 
> else -- could you try running this?
>
>         sh -x update-version.sh VERSION
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas

$ which sh
/usr/bin/sh
(note: SunOS sh)

$ sh -x update-version.sh VERSION
version=VERSION
update-version.sh: syntax error at line 24: `(' unexpected