Re: [Gm2] Shell games

[Gaius Mulley]

Michel De Rosa <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:37:22 -0500
> Michael Lambert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > John,
> > 
> > I _thought_ I had been able to work around all the instances by saying
> > 
> >       env SHELL=/bin/bash ./configure ...
> > 
> > and
> > 
> >       make SHELL=/bin/bash ...
> > 
> > Michael
> > 
> > On 10 Nov 2008, at 13:30, John O Goyo wrote:
> > 
> > > I have encountered a new problem on Solaris 10 and Ubuntu 8.04.
> > >
> > > In both cases, various scripts in gm2 are tagged to run under /bin/ 
> > > sh, which
> > > in Solaris and Ubuntu is not bash but the posix shell.  (One  
> > > difference is
> > > that functions in the latter are not defined with the keyword  
> > > "function".)
> > > Until very recently, this was not a problem, but now the scripts
> > > on said
> > > systems are explicitly run through /bin/sh and not /bin/bash  
> > > (despite my
> > > setting of SHELL).
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen this?
> > >
> > > john
> 
> Back when I ran FreeBSD, I used to do the following, to compile gm2:
> 
>   env CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash CC=gcc32 ../gcc-version/configure
>       --with-system-zlib --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,c++,gm2
>       --program-prefix=m2 --host=i386-gm2bld-freebsd5.3
> 
> The important bit here, for this issue, is the CONFIG_SHELL
> environment var, which tells configure that this is the shell we want
> to use for building purposes.  There was then no need to again specify
> which shell to use when invoking make..
> 
> Hopefully this isn't changed since then (that was a few years ago).
> 

Hi John,

if these BSD build options work with Solaris - I'll add them to a new
section in gm2.texi.

regards,
Gaius