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Bug 619432 - net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r10 build fail with ../MCONFIG:1: *** missing separator. Stop.
Summary: net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r10 build fail with ../MCONFIG:1: *** missing separa...
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2017-05-23 09:05 UTC by Alessandro Barbieri
Modified: 2021-01-03 13:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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build.log (build.log,7.45 KB, text/plain)
2017-05-23 09:07 UTC, Alessandro Barbieri 		Details
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Description Alessandro Barbieri 2017-05-23 09:05:23 UTC 
Fails with:

>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r10/work/netkit-rsh-0.17 ...
make -j5 -l5
(cd  rcp && make)
make[1]: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r10/work/netkit-rsh-0.17/rcp'
../MCONFIG:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r10/work/netkit-rsh-0.17/rcp'
make: *** [Makefile:7: rcp.build] Error 2
 * ERROR: net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r10::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed
Comment 1 Alessandro Barbieri 2017-05-23 09:07:28 UTC 
Created attachment 473842 [details]
build.log

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Comment 2 kfm 2021-01-03 13:22:19 UTC 
Resolving as OBSOLETE. Whichever /bin/sh implementation Alessandro was using at the time had an echo builtin - or was calling an echo binary - that did not treat -n as a special first operand, thus producing a broken MCONFIG file. At this point, it doesn't matter because version >=0.17-r11 modifies configure so as to replace "echo -n" with "printf %s", rendering it POSIX-conformant.