Package: input-utils Version: 1.0-1 Followup-For: Bug #750264 I traced this issue back to /bin/sh pointing to dash instead of bash. Please use the attached patch to fix the issue.
-- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages input-utils depends on: ii libc6 2.19-4 input-utils recommends no packages. input-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
Description: Fix FTBFS due to -e leaking into Make.config If /bin/sh is configured to point to dash, echo does not support -e switch which is used by mk/Autoconf.mk file to generate Make.config. Use 'env echo' instead. Author: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbarysh...@gmail.com> Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/750265 Forwarded: no Last-Update: 2014-07-09 --- input-utils-1.0.orig/mk/Autoconf.mk +++ input-utils-1.0/mk/Autoconf.mk @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ config: Make.config @true Make.config: $(srcdir)/GNUmakefile - @echo -e "$(make-config-q)" > $@ + @env echo -e "$(make-config-q)" > $@ @echo @echo "Make.config written, edit if needed" @echo