On 10/23/2010 09:16 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Hello Markus, > > * Markus Duft wrote on Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 09:59:27AM CEST: >> I have a question: In the new libtool, $ECHO is checked for in >> libtool.me, preferring print over printf over a fallback echo. Now, on >> interix, i have a KSH as /bin/sh which has print builtin, and thus >> configure chooses it. now when building, libtool is called using another >> shell (a bash), and things (of course) go wrong. >> >> as a workaround now i can use CONFIG_SHELL to set another shell (and >> call configure using that shell explicitly! it does not seem sufficient >> in all cases to set CONFIG_SHELL.), but i feel that it is not so good to >> rely on shell builtins which may not be there when make is called... any >> insights? >> >> or am i wrong, and it is specified, that the shells that configure and >> make use have to be the same? > > Exactly. The bug is that the shell used during configure, and the shell > invoking libtool, are not the same. This bug can be caused by different > things, either you setting SHELL in Makefile.in, or SHELL or > CONFIG_SHELL in configure.ac, or something similar. We cannot tell > without more details.
oh, well - good to know that ;) is there some documentation i can refer to wrt to this requirement? it seems we need to adapt some things, as this was not the case with previous versions - and i need to argue the need to do the work ;) markus > > Cheers, > Ralf _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool