Bug 687382 – sys-apps/netkit-base MCONFIG file generation uncompatible dash/(POSIX) echo

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Anon 2019-06-04 18:53:23 UTC]

On line 336 of the configure script '-n' is passed to echo.
Since POSIX echo doesn't support any arguments,
'-n' is treated as a regular string.

This results in ```MCONFIG:1: *** missing separator.  Stop.```, on execution of make.

The easiest solution would be to merge date into the same echo command:

echo '# Generated by configure (confgen version 2) on' $(date)

[Comment 1 kfm 2021-01-07 15:13:21 UTC]

I don't particularly approve of using sed in this way, but it could be used to resolve the issue, as happens in some other ebuilds. For example:

src_prepare() {                                                                                                                                
    default                                                                                                                                    
    sed -i -e 's/^\([[:space:]]*\)echo -n /\1printf %s /' configure || die                                                                     
}

[Comment 2 kfm 2021-01-07 15:22:37 UTC]

Created attachment 681796 [details, diff]
netkit-base-0.17-avoid-echo-with-options.patch

Here's a patch, anyway.