Re: stray dot in freetds configure on OSX (was Re: Freetds (was Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] changes pushed))

[Tony Theodore]

On 12 September 2010 06:53, Mark Brand <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> A wild guess would be that your "echo" does not like the "-n" at line 5 in
> configure.ac:
>
>> AC_INIT(FreeTDS, 0.83.dev.esyscmd(echo -n $(date +"%Y%m%d")))
>
> Care to experiment?

Indeed, I've wasted time playing with various versions of autotools
and bash. From man echo:

  Most notably, the builtin echo in sh(1) does not accept the -n option.

  Applications aiming for maximum portability are strongly encouraged to use
           printf(1) to suppress the newline character.


This works on OSX:

diff -r ffaeb3439286 src/freetds.mk
--- a/src/freetds.mk    Sat Sep 11 21:03:14 2010 +0200
+++ b/src/freetds.mk    Sun Sep 12 07:27:39 2010 +1000
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 endef

 define $(PKG)_BUILD
+    $(SED) -i 's,echo -n,printf,' '$(1)/configure.ac'
     cd '$(1)' && NOCONFIGURE=true ./autogen.sh
     cd '$(1)' && $(LIBTOOLIZE)


But I haven't tested it on other systems. Some other options may be
setting SHELL or CONFIG_SHELL, I'll look at it tomorrow.

Cheers,

Tony