Can't find string terminator '' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
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 21
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?
--
Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
Re: Can't find string terminator '' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
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 21
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.-
Re: Can't find string terminator '' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
* Christian Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de [100915 11:04]:
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 21
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?
--
Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
I get the same error with:
perl -e \printf '%vd', $^V\
but it works if I remove the quote escapes:
perl -e printf '%vd', $^V
jim@
Re: Can't find string terminator '' anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
Federico G. Schwindt: IT_PERL_VERSION=`$INTLTOOL_PERL -e \printf '%vd', $^V\` Are those scripts using set -o posix? Yes, they do... bingo! POSIX mode changes the quote parsing. But of course bash's POSIX mode doesn't. *sigh* The whole thing is silly, because that line is overquoted anyway. This would do: IT_PERL_VERSION=`$INTLTOOL_PERL -e printf '%vd', $^V` -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
