Bug 208326 - sci-mathematics/axiom-200711: gcl-2.6.7 configure has quoting error
Bug#: 208326 Product:  Gentoo Linux Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: normal Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: sci-mathematics@gentoo.org Reported By: vaeth@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Component: Applications
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Summary: sci-mathematics/axiom-200711: gcl-2.6.7 configure has quoting error
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Status Whiteboard: 
Opened: 2008-01-31 17:50 0000
Description:   Opened: 2008-01-31 17:50 0000 
The archive silver/zips/gcl-2.6.7 contains a configure-new.ac (and a
corresponding configure.in and configure) which all have the false line
   system=MP-RAS-`${AWK} '{print $3}' /etc/.relid'`
(the last ' is obviously false).
For some reason, the line is "eaten" by bash (presumably with a false
interpretation) but building definitely fails if /bin/sh is a symlink to dash
(it dies with the expected "unterminated quoted string" error).

------- Comment #1 From Martin Väth 2008-01-31 18:46:58 0000 ------- 
Now I see what is going wrong:

Apparently there was a patch for this already by gentoo and by upstream, and
the gentoo fix was removed because of the upstream patch.

Unfortunately, the upstream patch is wrong, because it applies to
"configure.in" without calling autotools, i.e. "configure" is still wrong.

So the clean solution would probably be to call autotools for regenerating
configure or to patch configure as well. But perhaps it is enough to make the
upstream patch apply to "configure" instead of configure.in. So as a quick fix,
the following will do in src_unpack():
        sed -e "s:configure.in:configure:" \
                -i zips/gcl-2.6.7.configure.in.patch

------- Comment #2 From Markus Dittrich 2008-02-01 17:52:56 0000 ------- 
Thanks much for pointing this out. This should be fixed
in portage cvs now. 

cheers,
Markus