[Bug binutils/16528] New: Binutils fails to build with CONFIG_SHELL=dash

[sstewartgallus00 at mylangara dot bc.ca]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16528

            Bug ID: 16528
           Summary: Binutils fails to build with CONFIG_SHELL=dash
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.24
            Status: NEW
          Severity: minor
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: sstewartgallus00 at mylangara dot bc.ca

Created attachment 7392
  --> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=7392&action=edit
opcodes/config.log

Binutils fails to build with the CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/dash setting for
autotools. Dash is the Debian Almquist shell. I believe I am using
version 0.5.7 of dash (strangely it does not seem to have a version
option so I had check my package manager and I may be reading it
incorrectly). Fixing this should be useful for me and possible you
because dash can be faster than bash for building projects. As well,
the same problems that dash has may appear with other shells. Of
course, this bug could be a bug in dash. I have not fully investigated
the issue.

The build seems to fail after reaching the following point when making:

Configuring in ./opcodes
configure: loading site script
/home/sstewartgallus/mine/config/autotools_config.sh
configure: creating cache ./config.cache
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc... ccache gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables... 
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether ccache gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for ccache gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for a BSD-compatible install...
/home/sstewartgallus/others/src/binutils-2.24/opcodes/configure: 3282:
./configure.lineno: Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting "fi")
make[1]: *** [configure-opcodes] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/sstewartgallus/temp/binutils-bug'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Attached is the opcodes/config.log which should describe the problem.

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