From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ghlwb-0003bA-1j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:50:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA8BlvdH012295; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:47:57 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA8BjoFn005627 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:45:51 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 161AE30037 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:45:50 +0100 (CET) From: Bo =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/kbd-1.12-r8 Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 12:45:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <454F221E.5040604@shic.co.uk> <200611072023.50078.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> <4551B50F.50801@shic.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4551B50F.50801@shic.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3789259.mPK4q9GcqN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200611081245.50670.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: f6c1fe5a-b48e-4731-8322-a04d3ddc41c1 X-Archives-Hash: d838ab0bb64f612468184de313f24c50 --nextPart3789259.mPK4q9GcqN Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 08 November 2006 11:44, Steve [Gentoo] wrote: > Thanks for your help, and while it might not have been obvious to you > (or anyone else reading along)... everything that was confusing before > is clear now... to me at least. =A0While I can see what is wrong, it isn't > 100% clear if it constitutes a bug or not. > > The problem is that the configure script starts '#!/bin/sh' - but goes > on to depend upon Bash specific features... specifically substitution. > I expect this would not be a problem for most users where /bin/sh is a > sym-link to /bin/bash.... but, for me, /bin/sh was a sym-link to > /bin/ash... and, for that shell, line 151 is invalid. Heh, I just hadn't noticed that the first line of the script said /bin/sh.= =20 That's definitely a bug. Either the script must be modified to only=20 use /bin/sh features or it must request a shell that supports it... =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart3789259.mPK4q9GcqN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFUcNu8/kKEzmwNNoRAg55AKC+AANX+opoFuxbnI9wHdmz6dS2FACeI3lF ctyBsVQpJX13ewuoAzRphHc= =EHY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3789259.mPK4q9GcqN-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list