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[gnuastro-devel] [bug #54430] BuildProgram fails with older Libtool vers
From: |
Mohammad Akhlaghi |
Subject: |
[gnuastro-devel] [bug #54430] BuildProgram fails with older Libtool versions on dash |
Date: |
Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:32:29 -0400 (EDT) |
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URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54430>
Summary: BuildProgram fails with older Libtool versions on
dash
Project: GNU Astronomy Utilities
Submitted by: makhlaghi
Submitted on: Thu 02 Aug 2018 03:32:28 PM CEST
Category: BuildProgram
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Crash
Status: In Progress
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: makhlaghi
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
Some operating systems (Ubuntu in this case) set the default shell to dash
<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dash>, it is a minimalist POSIX
compliant shell. Therefore it doesn't have many features that are available in
Bash (including the `+=' operator).
Older versions of Libtool (2.4.2 in this case) don't check for the
availability of the `+=' operator by the shell before using it, therefore
BuildProgram fails on such systems with an error like this:
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 1581: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
preserve_args+= --tag CC: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= -Wall: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6434: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= -Wall: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6435: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= -Wall: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= -O3: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6298: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= -O3: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6299: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= -O3: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6300: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compiler_flags+= -O3: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= -I../lib: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6434: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= -I../lib: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6435: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= -I../lib: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= -I../lib/: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6434: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= -I../lib/: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6435: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= -I../lib/: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= ../tests/buildprog/simpleio.c: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6434: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= ../tests/buildprog/simpleio.c: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6435: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= ../tests/buildprog/simpleio.c: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= -I/usr/local/include: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6434: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= -I/usr/local/include: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6435: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= -I/usr/local/include: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= ../lib/libgnuastro.la: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6418: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
deplibs+= ../lib/libgnuastro.la: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= -o: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6434: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= -o: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 6435: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= -o: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5656: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
libtool_args+= simpleio: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5662: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= @OUTPUT@: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 5663: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= @OUTPUT@: not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 9202: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
compile_command+= : not found
/home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool: 9203: /home/userid/anaconda2/bin/libtool:
finalize_command+= : not found
libtool: link: gcc
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated.
Compiling and linking the program
---------------------------------
/home/userid/Downloads/gnuastro-0.6.54-6aa5/bin/buildprog/.libs/lt-astbuildprog:
failed to build, see libtool error above
FAIL buildprog/simpleio.sh (exit status: 1)
Newer versions of libtool do address this problem (checked with version
2.4.6), but we don't want to force the user to modify their installation as
much as possible: only if there is no other way.
So a check should be written to see if Libtool works within the system's
default shell. If it doesn't, then we'll check if Bash is present. If it
indeed works with Bash (older versions of Bash also don't support the `+='
operator), then we'll put a `bash -c' behind the command called by
BuildProgram to fix the problem on such systems.
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