Your message dated Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:59:48 -0800
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and subject line Re: Bug#563586: Provide a switch to prevent autoconf from
changing shell
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: autoconf
Severity: wishlist
If the autoconf tool is run under a particular shell, the autoconf tool
may switch shell during build (via m4sh _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL).
This causes a problem with package testing, because a test or development
machine may incidentally have an additional shell installed that is not
present on the target machine. By switching shell, the build scripts are not
being tested on the invocation shell, and the generated scripts may not
work correctly when transferred to a target machine.
It would be useful to have a switch to prevent autoconf from switching
shell.
Mark.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii m4 1.4.13-3 a macro processing language
ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages autoconf recommends:
pn automake | automaken <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages autoconf suggests:
pn autobook <none> (no description available)
pn autoconf-archive <none> (no description available)
pn autoconf-doc <none> (no description available)
pn autoconf2.13 <none> (no description available)
ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities
pn gnu-standards <none> (no description available)
pn libtool <none> (no description available)
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--- Begin Message ---
In the original bug report, Mark Hobley <[email protected]>
requested:
> It would be useful to have a switch to prevent autoconf from switching
> shell.
In a followup, Ralf Wildenhues <[email protected]> gave a
solution that does not require changes to Autoconf:
> You can already do that, see 'info Autoconf --index CONFIG_SHELL':
> CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/foosh /bin/foosh ./configure
Since this works with Autoconf as-is, and because Mark has not
followed up with a reason that it is not sufficient, I am closing
this bug.
Thank you, Ralf!
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Ben Pfaff
http://benpfaff.org
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