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30.0.50; unportable shell construct in configure

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Thomas Klausner <wiz <at> gatalith.at>
Cc: 65292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65292: 30.0.50; unportable shell construct in configure
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:21:56 +0800

Thomas Klausner <wiz <at> gatalith.at> writes:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2023 at 10:23:24AM +0800, Po Lu wrote:
>> Appears that I neglected to copy the bug tracker into my initial reply.
>> Resending.
>> 
>> Thomas Klausner <wiz <at> gatalith.at> writes:
>> 
>> > NetBSD's sh doesn't like:
>> >
>> > if test -n "${ndk_commands//\n }"
>> >
>> > (it works in bash)
>> >
>> > This construct has been in m4/ndk-build.m4 for quite some time, I'm
>> > not
>> > sure how it ended up in configure now, but I guess it was one of the
>> > recent Android changes.
>> 
>> Indeed.  However, the function containing that substitution is not
>> utilized under NetBSD.
>> 
>> Does its presence lead to actual difficulties during configure, or is it
>> merely an error reported when running sh -n?
>
> Yes, this is an actual problem. I only noticed this because:
>
> checking for xcrun... no
> checking for GNU Make... make
> checking build system type... x86_64--netbsd
> checking host system type... x86_64--netbsd
> ./configure: 5434: Syntax error: Bad substitution
> *** Error code 2
>
> The command line I used is
>
> ./configure --srcdir=/scratch/wip/emacs-git/work/emacs
> --localstatedir=/var --with-native-compilation --without-ns
> --without-imagemagick --without-xaw3d --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
> --prefix=/usr/pkg --build=x86_64--netbsd --host=x86_64--netbsd
> --infodir=/usr/pkg/info --mandir=/usr/pkg/man
> --enable-option-checking=yes
>
> in case it matters.
>  Thomas

Should be fixed now, thanks.

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