Thanks Behdad, The problem is that I do not have root permissions on the system with the faulty '/bin/sh': I cannot change '/bin/sh' and need to build my programs with a custom shell.
If the user specifies a wrong shell (not the default '/bin/sh'), it is their own responsibility that it is POSIX-compatible. The same way that a user can give a non-GNU Make executable to the GNUMAKE variable. In short, when a user changes defaults, it is their resposibility, not the developer's. So no need to worry about that; the important thing is to give users the freedon to customize for their custom environments (as GNU Autoconf does for example; but Autoconf is not used in FreeType). Cheers, Mohammad On May 1, 2024 10:25:54 PM GMT+02:00, Behdad Esfahbod <beh...@behdad.org> wrote: >There's no guarantee that the user's shell is sh-compatible. autoconf >really means sh here, because that's the shell the script is written for. >Just symlink your favorite shell to sh then, if it's compatible. > >behdad >http://behdad.org/ > > >On Wed, May 1, 2024 at 2:13 PM Mohammad Akhlaghi <moham...@akhlaghi.org> >wrote: > >> Hi again, >> >> I was able to find a cleaner hack by running this command before the >> './configure' script: >> >> export GNUMAKE="make SHELL=$SHELL" >> >> Afterwards, FreeType successfully ran with my desired shell. >> >> But generally, it would greatly help those building FreeType from source >> if the configure script accounts for the 'SHELL' environment variable. >> >> Thanks a lot for all the nice work on FreeType, >> Cheers, >> Mohammad >> >> On 5/1/24 9:00 PM, Mohammad Akhlaghi wrote: >> > Dear Freetype developers, >> > >> > I was trying to build FreeType from source and noticed that the >> > './configure' script does not account for the 'SHELL' environment and >> > will always use '/bin/sh'. >> > >> > Looking at the source of the './configure' script, I was able to fix the >> > problem by manually adding a 'SHELL=$SHELL' in line 135 of the >> > './configure' script: >> > >> > >> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/blob/master/configure?ref_type=heads#L135 >> > >> > Accounting for the user's given SHELL is common in many programs when >> > building from source, so it would be good if you could account for it in >> > future versions of FreeType also. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Mohammad >> >>
