Since registering on flyspray still doesn't give the ability to file a bug report, I am email to the masses.
>From git master of librep as of 2011-11-25, on Ubuntu 11.10, libtool is generated to use bash specific syntax and then runs it with /bin/sh. See below. There really shouldn't be any bash-specific features in the auto* stuff, kind of defeats the purpose of using it :-) It really should be easy to file a bug report rather than just go away and use something else :-( Thanks and keep up the great work. Sawfish is one of the reason I don't buy a Mac. make[3]: Entering directory `/home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/repo/librep/src' gcc -c -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../src -I.. -I/home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/local/include -g -O2 -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wmissing-prototypes -o repdoc.o repdoc.c /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -L/home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/local/lib -o repdoc repdoc.o -lgdbm ../libtool: 1639: preserve_args+= --tag CC: not found ../libtool: 9823: libtool_args+= -L/home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/local/lib: not found ../libtool: 9823: deplibs+= -L/home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/local/lib: not found ../libtool: 9823: lib_search_path+= /home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/local/lib: not found ../libtool: 9823: libtool_args+= -o: not found ../libtool: 9823: compile_command+= -o: not found ../libtool: 9823: finalize_command+= -o: not found ../libtool: 9823: libtool_args+= repdoc: not found ../libtool: 9823: compile_command+= @OUTPUT@: not found ../libtool: 9823: finalize_command+= @OUTPUT@: not found ../libtool: 1: libtool_args+= repdoc.o: not found ../libtool: 1: objs+= repdoc.o: not found ../libtool: 1: compile_command+= repdoc.o: not found ../libtool: 1: finalize_command+= repdoc.o: not found ../libtool: 1: libtool_args+= -lgdbm: not found ../libtool: 1: deplibs+= -lgdbm: not found ../libtool: 1: compile_command+= : not found ../libtool: 1: finalize_command+= : not found libtool: link: gcc gcc: fatal error: no input files compilation terminated. make[3]: *** [repdoc] Error 4 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/markd/adm/build/sawfish/repo/librep/src' --- -- Sawfish ML
