C:C-ing fish-users. Axel: you forgot to hit "reply all".. 2006/1/12, Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 1/11/06, Isak Savo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently discover a bug in fish (or in autotools, but I think I post > > here first :-)) which makes it impossible to run "make dist" in a > > standard autotools controlled source tree. > > > > After 2 days of debugging automake macros, configure.in etc I decided > > to try it with a user who has bash as default shell. It worked > > flawlessly. > > Oops. Sorry to hear that.
Yeah, well I guess I've a better understanding of auto* now at least ;-) > > I'd be happy to provide more details, but I suspect that if this is a > > bug, you can find out more by just trying to run "make dist" in > > basically any open source source directory. > > I just tried it on gpg, since I happened to have the source, and it > seemed to work. At least it didn't produce any errors. I'll try some > more programs tomorrow. Can you also try to run ./autogen.sh in their directories. I did some more testing today, and only programs that my version of automake (1.4, ubuntu) created is giving me problems. > Could you try doing a 'make dist' from fish after setting SHELL to > /bin/bash. If that suceeds, automake seems to use SHELL in preference > to /bin/sh, which should be considered a bug. That problem has been > encountered with vi and pine. No difference. Isak ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
