Subject: bug#20733: coreutils build problem

From: Michael Felt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 16:09:35 +0200

root@x065:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23]make V=1
        rm -f src/coreutils.h
        for prog in ; do         prog=`basename
$prog`;                          main=`echo $prog | tr '['
'_'`;                         echo "SINGLE_BINARY_PROGRAM(\"$prog\",
$main)";         done | sort > src/coreutils.ht
/bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `;' is not expected.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Stop.
root@x065:[/data/prj/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.23]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Michael Felt wrote:
>
>>    GEN      src/coreutils.h
>> /bin/sh: 0403-057 Syntax error at line 1 : `;' is not expected.
>> make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.
>>
>
> This looks like the coreutils patch wasn't properly propagated somehow.
> What's the output of 'make V=1'?
>