oprofile's configure.ac contains Bashisms (use of == operator with test built-in). Thus, configure emits errors when /bin/sh is not Bash. This doesn't cause the build to fail outright, but it may be causing misdetection of features. elif test "`getent passwd oprofile 2>/dev/null`" == "" || \ test "`getent group oprofile 2>/dev/null`" == ""; then ./configure: 22444: test: oprofile:x:105:989:added by portage for oprofile:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin: unexpected operator ./configure: 22445: test: oprofile:x:989:: unexpected operator Suggest setting CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash when running configure. The "unexpected operator" messages above are not present when CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash.
I'll look into this, but this is extremely strange: on my systems I use dash as /bin/sh for many years now and had no such problems. What is you shell?
(In reply to Andrew Savchenko from comment #1) > I'll look into this, but this is extremely strange: on my systems I use dash > as /bin/sh for many years now and had no such problems. > > What is you shell? I use Dash as /bin/sh too. Dash in Gentoo was only recently unbroken so that Autoconf now uses it by default (unless CONFIG_SHELL is set): https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/808dded4f103becf7929562b1ed58046aa63f3f6#diff-1950efa4b44082ca7e999f49425833d5
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=d9f840af70f1d562cb326d3829861c1be64aa761 commit d9f840af70f1d562cb326d3829861c1be64aa761 Author: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2020-08-30 13:01:42 +0000 Commit: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2020-08-30 13:05:04 +0000 dev-util/oprofile: version bump - Update to 1.4.0 - Migrate to GLEP 81 - Add support for doxygen docs build via USE=apidoc - Remove bash-specific operators from configure - Add USE="static-libs" to control *.a and *.la installation Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/730716 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/723092 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.3, Repoman-3.0.0 Signed-off-by: Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org> dev-util/oprofile/Manifest | 1 + dev-util/oprofile/metadata.xml | 3 ++ dev-util/oprofile/oprofile-1.4.0.ebuild | 87 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 91 insertions(+)
