re: compile problems

[John W. Eaton]

On 11-Jun-2010, Tommy Guy wrote:

| On having compile problems with Octave on Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit, I got this 
advice:
| 
| | Try the following:
| | "mv /bin/sh /bin/sh_old && ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh"
| | and then compile octave.
| 
| This did in fact work, and it seems that there is something in the
| bash script that is not accepted in the dash shell (Ubuntu standard).
| My hunch is something to do with +=, but that is a guess based on the
| fact that that is what broke.
| 
| I am not sure what changes in dash from 8.10 to 9.10 caused this error
| to manifest, but this can not be a long term solution.
| 
| Do all relevant scripts in the source have #/bin/bash as a shebang
| line?  Would probably fix this problem without being so heavy handed.

Which script are we talking about?

If some script in the Octave build environment requires bash, then we
should probably fix the script to not require bash.  It would be
helpful if someone could submit a complete report about this problem
to the bug tracker.

jwe