Subject: bug#6181: closed (Re: bug#6181: 24.0.50; configure fails to detect necessary startup files on netbsd and possibilly on openbsd)

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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 07:29:02 +0000

Your bug report

#6181: 24.0.50; configure fails to detect necessary startup files on netbsd and possibilly on openbsd

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#6181: 24.0.50; configure fails to detect necessary startup files on netbsd and possibilly on openbsd
From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 03:28:27 -0400
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Thanks.

Subject: 24.0.50; configure fails to detect necessary startup files on netbsd and possibilly on openbsd
From: enami tsugutomo <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 13:09:57 +0900
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If opsys is netbsd (or openbsd), configure trys to check the existense
of file crti.o under the directory $CRT_DIR.  But since the shell
expression written in the script is wrong ($(var) is not variable
reference but command substitution), it fails to detect the existense.

As a result, generated src/temacs is not executable at least on netbsd.
It looks like there is confusion between makefile syntax and shell
script syntax.

Here is a diff to configure (of course actual fix should be done in
configure.in though):

=== modified file 'configure'
--- configure	2010-05-12 03:09:56 +0000
+++ configure	2010-05-13 03:43:47 +0000
@@ -6484,7 +6484,7 @@
     START_FILES='pre-crt0.o $(CRT_DIR)/crt0.o'
     ;;
   netbsd | openbsd )
-    if test -f $(CRT_DIR)/crti.o; then
+    if test -f $CRT_DIR/crti.o; then
 	LIB_STANDARD='-lgcc -lc -lgcc $(CRT_DIR)/crtend.o $(CRT_DIR)/crtn.o'
         START_FILES='pre-crt0.o $(CRT_DIR)/crt0.o $(CRT_DIR)/crti.o $(CRT_DIR)/crtbegin.o'
     else

In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.3 (x86_64--netbsd)
 of 2010-05-13 on rplaca.sm.sony.co.jp
configured using `configure  'x86_64--netbsd' '--with-x=no' 'build_alias=x86_64--netbsd' 'host_alias=x86_64--netbsd' 'target_alias=x86_64--netbsd''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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Minor modes in effect:
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  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t

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