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libtool bootstrap fails with Solaris /bin/sh

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From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen <at> simple.dallas.tx.us>
To: "Gary V. Vaughan" <gary <at> vaughan.pe>
Cc: 9848 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9848: libtool bootstrap fails with Solaris /bin/sh
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:37 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

> Hi Bob,
>
> On 23 Oct 2011, at 23:19, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
>> + func_quote_for_eval + : func_quote_for_eval_result=
>> + test 0 -gt 0 func_run_hooks_result=
>> + set dummy + shift func_options_prep_result=
>> + eval func_parse_options + func_parse_options + : func_parse_options_result=
>> + test 0 -gt 0 + func_quote_for_eval + : func_quote_for_eval_result=
>> + test 0 -gt 0 func_parse_options_result=
>> ./bootstrap: bad substitution
>
> Odd.  I took func_quote_for_eval right out of libtool... can you 
> figure out what particular substitution Solaris /bin/sh chokes on? 
> I guess I broke something when I unrolled the option parsing loop 
> (again, taken directly from libtool) to allow plugging additional 
> parse functions in to the bootstrap execution via bootstrap.conf.

Libtool does not use /bin/sh on Solaris because it uses the shell 
selected by autoconf.  This means that libtool's func_quote_for_eval 
is similarly broken with broken Solaris /bin/sh.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen <at> simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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