[kde-solaris] Re: Unhelpful error building dcop in kdelibs

[Stefan Teleman]

No.

The GNU autoconf/libtool/configure stuff is written for the 
*GNU/Linux* /bin/sh. On GNU/Linux systems, /bin/sh is either a 
symlink to the Bourne Again Shell, a.k.a. bash, or a duplicate of the 
/bin/bash binary:

[steleman at darthvader][~][01/31/2005 7:27:44][4]>> ls -la /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 2003-12-27 23:33 /bin/sh -> 
bash
[steleman at darthvader][~][01/31/2005 11:22:09][5]>> uname -a
Linux darthvader.nyc.rr.com 2.4.20-6 #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST 2003 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

(this is RedHat 9).

The Bourne shell and the Bourne Again Shell are not one and the same.
On Solaris, CONFIG_SHELL must be explicitly set to /bin/bash, and the 
#!/bin/sh directives at top of all autoconf scripts should be changed 
to #!/bin/bash, including libtool and ./configure, because /bin/sh 
and /bin/bash are two different binaries. /bin/sh on Solaris is the 
old, original Bourne shell, written by Stephen Bourne. The easiest 
way of doing this is to do

:1,$ s#/bin/sh#/bin/bash#g

in ./configure and in libtool.

It is not true that the FSF pages contain references to the Bourne 
shell. They contain references to /bin/sh, which on GNU/Linux means 
the Bourne Again Shell, i.e. bash.

--Stefan

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On Monday 31 January 2005 09:26, Rolf Sponsel wrote:
> If you need bash to run the Makefile,
> then the Makefile does not follow
> the gnu makefile recommendations,
> and thus should be fixed.
>
> Please have a look at the GNU make documentation.
>
> GNU make: Makefile Basics
>   14.1 General Conventions for Makefiles
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/make_123.html#SEC
>127
>
> Bourne shell, NOT Bourne again shell!
>
> Help spreading the awareness about this!
>
>
> / Rolf
>
> Michael Lambrellis, 2005-01-31 05:57 GMT +01:00, wrote:
> > OK. I got past this. I had to replace all the "SHELL = /bin/sh"
> > lines in the Makefiles with "SHELL = /my/bash". By the way, is
> > there an easy way to do this using the configure script? Is it as
> > simple as: SHELL=/my/bash ./configure ...
> > In any case, I used a little search-and replace tool called gsar
> > that I HIGHLY recommend to have around.
> > (http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gsar.htm)
> >
> > ... SNIP ...

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Stefan Teleman          'Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition'
steleman at nyc.rr.com                          -Monty Python