[bug-patch] Re: GNU patch: new 2.6 release

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Saturday 14 November 2009 13:22:38 Claudio Fontana wrote:
> I also got a compilation failure of the new version on sparc Solaris 10.
> 
> After I configure when I try to make the generated Makefile, I get:
> 
> $ make
> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 49: Unexpected end of line seen
> 
> If I use GNU make I get
> 
> $ gmake
> ./update-version.sh: syntax error at line 24: `(' unexpected
> gmake: *** [VERSION] Error 2
>
> Are you using GNU make-specific features and/or bashisms in the
> executed shell-scripts?

GNU make-specific features: apparently yes; let's see if we can work around 
it. The update-version.sh shouldn't have any bashisms, it's probably something 
else -- could you try running this?

        sh -x update-version.sh VERSION

Thanks,
Andreas