[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #30119] build failure using dash shell in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit

[John W. Eaton]

Update of bug #30119 (project octave):

                  Status:                    None => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

I guess it is coming from lines like

  func_append finalize_command " $qarg"

in the generated libtool script since func_append is also defined in that
script to be

# func_append var value
# Append VALUE to the end of shell variable VAR.
func_append ()
{
  eval "$1+=$2"
}

So this looks like a libtool problem so I guess the right place to report the
bug is to the libtool maintainers.

A new version of libtool was recently released, but it appears ot have the
same definition of func_append.

In any case, I think you can avoid the problem by doing something like

  CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash configure ...

to configure Octave.  That way, the generated libtool script should use the
shell specified by CONFIG_SHELL.  There is no need to be root and change
/bin/sh to be /bin/bash.

I'm marking this bug as invalid and closing it because if there is a bug, it
should be fixed in libtool so everyone benefits from the fix rather than
putting some workaround in Octave.

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