On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 05:02:33PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > We have quite a number of ports (183 at a rough count) that produce > this error during configure: > > checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl > checking for perl >= 5.8.1... Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere > before EOF at -e line 1. > > It's harmless, I guess, but annoying. It's from some autoconf macro > that checks the availability of perl for intltool purposes. The > expanded sh snippet is this: > > -------> > if test -z "$INTLTOOL_PERL"; then > as_fn_error "perl not found" "$LINENO" 5 > fi > { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for perl >= 5.8.1" >&5 > $as_echo_n "checking for perl >= 5.8.1... " >&6; } > $INTLTOOL_PERL -e "use 5.8.1;" > /dev/null 2>&1 > if test $? -ne 0; then > as_fn_error "perl 5.8.1 is required for intltool" "$LINENO" 5 > else > IT_PERL_VERSION="`$INTLTOOL_PERL -e \"printf '%vd', $^V\"`" > { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $IT_PERL_VERSION" >&5 > $as_echo "$IT_PERL_VERSION" >&6; } > fi > <------- > > Specifically, the line > > IT_PERL_VERSION="`$INTLTOOL_PERL -e \"printf '%vd', $^V\"`" > > should be the one throwing the error. However, I can't find anything > wrong there. The nested quoting is tricky, but it works just fine > if I run it on the sh command line. > > Any ideas?
Are those scripts using "set -o posix"? f.-