Re: Bashism in aclocal?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:04:09AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> I am generating a package with libtool/automake/autoconf and ran into a
> strange problem: libtool fails to run due to wrong variable substitutions. I
> tracked down the problem and the culprit is the libtool section in
> aclocal.m4.  Actually, the code in aclocal only behaves correctly if I run
> configure through bash:
> 
>     $ bash configure
>     [ suppressed output ]    
>     $ grep libname_spec= libtool 
>     libname_spec="lib\$name"
> 
>     $ sh configure
>     [ suppressed output ]    
>     $ grep libname_spec= libtool 
>     libname_spec="lib$name"
>     
> [My Bourne shell is ash.]

Herbert Xu said in an earlier thread on this list that you need to be
running ash 0.3.8-32.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]