[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #30119] build failure using dash shell in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit

[Richard T. Guy]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30119>

                 Summary: build failure using dash shell in Ubuntu 9.10 64bit
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: guyrt
            Submitted on: Sat 12 Jun 2010 12:02:54 AM GMT
                Category: Configuration and Build System
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Build Failure
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Richard T. Guy
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: dev
        Operating System: GNU/Linux

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Details:

I was unable to build Octave in Ubuntu 9.10, 64 bit using the dash shell.  I
got lots of errors like this:


eval: 1: libtool_args+=: not found
eval: 1: compile_command+=: not found
eval: 1: finalize_command+=: not found
eval: 1: libtool_args+=: not found
eval: 1: compile_command+=: not found
eval: 1: finalize_command+=: not found
eval: 1: libtool_args+=: not found
eval: 1: compile_command+=: not found


followed by this:


la=`echo DLD-FUNCTIONS/max.la | /bin/sed 's,DLD-FUNCTIONS/,,'` && \
          of=`echo DLD-FUNCTIONS/max.oct | /bin/sed 's,DLD-FUNCTIONS/,,'` && \
          cd DLD-FUNCTIONS && \
          ln -s .libs/`/bin/sed -n -e "s/dlname='\([^']*\)'/\1/p" < $la` $of
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.1/libgfortranbegin.a(fmain.o): In function
`main':
(.text+0x26): undefined reference to `MAIN__'


When I switched my default shell to bash rather than the debian product bash,
the problem was resolved.  I can attach a full output from a failed build, but
it gets a ways in so that would be very long.  Bottom line, it is almost
certainly a script in 
octave/src that needs a #/bin/bash

RTG




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