On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 06:04:29PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>
>>> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>>
>>>> I added the sed for ltmain.sh-12.0.1 because it is used
>>>> unconditionally.  But it breaks my build (I fail on any error,
>>>> except when running certain conditional local options)  because the
>>>> file is now in the bin/ directory.
>>>>
>>>> I'll fix this in my next commit unless anybody objects.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The sed in the book is wrong.  It should be:
>>>
>>> sed -i "/seems to be moved/s/^/: #/" ltmain.sh
>>>
>>> It needs the colon (:) before the hash as in
>>>
>>> if [ "$x" = "1" ]; then
>>> : #abcd
>>> fi
>>>
>>
> Are you sure ?  I hadn't looked at the logs once it no longer
>> errored, but I've looked now and I do not see any "seems to be
>> moved".
>>
>
> Pretty sure.  Douglas made most of the changes.  Take a look at guile.xml
> for instance.  An alternative is in ImageMagick.
>
> Yes, that was my fault. Sorry about that. Should be a quick fix.


> For mesalb, the file is bin/ltmain.sh (the book has bin/ missing).
>
> For mesalib, the file has:
> ----
> else
>   eval libdir=`$SED -n -e 's/^libdir=\(.*\)$/\1/p' $deplib`
>   test -z "$libdir" && \
>     func_fatal_error "'$deplib' is not a valid libtool archive"
>   test "$absdir" != "$libdir" && \
>     func_warning "'$deplib' seems to be moved"
>
>   path=-L$absdir
> ------
> So replacing the line with func_warning with only a comment is wrong.  It
> should be replaced with either 'true' or ':'
>
> There are other ways to fix it though.   I like to use the colon to
> replace the commented line because it is basically a no-op instead of a
> null line.  An 'if' or 'case' statement must have something before it is
> terminated and the colon will do.  In this case it is a part of a && joined
> list of instructions so, depending on what follows, the && woks on the
> wrong thing.
>
>   -- Bruce
>
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