[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#671971: fontforge: FTBFS: ../libtool: 1: eval: base_compile+= -c: not found

[Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>]

* Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>, 2012-05-14, 12:28:
> I might be misunderstanding this patch -- i think the intent is to cope 
> with the bashisms in some of the configuration scripts, but the patch 
> doesn't mention bash at all. Is it attempting to rely on the user's 
> shell being bash?

No. The configure script with set SHELL to /bin/bash, because this is 
what libtool needs.

> What if the user's shell is /bin/sh (and that's symlinked to dash) or 
> some other shell?

Just to be sure, I tried building with user that has user shell set to 
/bin/dash and it didn't FTBFS.

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Jakub Wilk