Bug 497626 – sys-devel/crossdev: configure scripts that don't reload in bash trip up config.site

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Tsoy 2014-01-09 15:08:02 UTC]

Please remove bashisms from config.site script. /bin/sh is a symlink to dash on my system and I see following warnings (e.g. when emerging ncurses):

# grep config.site /var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2/temp/build.log
configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2/work/ncurses-5.9/configure: 40: /usr/share/config.site: [[: not found
configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
/var/tmp/portage/sys-libs/ncurses-5.9-r2/work/ncurses-5.9/configure: 40: /usr/share/config.site: [[: not found

[Comment 1 Mikael Magnusson 2014-10-22 22:31:53 UTC]

http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/config_002esite.html
"If a file named prefix/share/config.site exists, configure will source it at the beginning of its execution."

configure: loading site script /usr/share/config.site
/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xrandr-1.4.3/work/xrandr-1.4.3/configure: 40: /usr/share/config.site: [[: not found

There's no reason to think that configure scripts would or should "reload in bash".

[Comment 2 Alexander Tsoy 2014-10-25 21:12:47 UTC]

With dash-0.5.8.1 recently landed into the tree more configure scripts start choosing /bin/sh instead of /bin/bash

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2014-10-31 02:15:18 UTC]

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/crossdev.git;a=commitdiff;h=ef7d323880dd0ad1e322f8debb9f4b400c580b71

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2015-05-25 09:52:19 UTC]

*** Bug 529734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***