On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Jack Hill wrote:
However, that fails to build because it tries to invoke /bin/sh (see full
build log at the end of this message).
Line 2465 in configure.sh is suspicious as it reads:
```
$SHELL "$ac_aux_dir/config.sub" sun4 >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
```
I tried modifying the package definition to add a phase that sets the SHELL
variable, but that did not alter the build error. My package definition with
that change looks like:
After a more careful reading of configure.sh, the variable to set is
CONFIG_SHELL, so a `(setenv "CONFIG_SHELL" (which "sh"))` does the trick.
That means I now have the following package definition that builds.
```
(define-public perl-backuppc-xs
(package
(name "perl-backuppc-xs")
(version "0.59")
(source
(origin
(method url-fetch)
(uri (string-append
"mirror://cpan/authors/id/C/CB/CBARRATT/BackupPC-XS-"
version
".tar.gz"))
(sha256
(base32
"1rp57x3amv4g3sa1az83f5xyw25cj7hhvmj3jczrkmfbrpnxlkca"))))
(build-system perl-build-system)
(arguments
'(#:phases
(modify-phases %standard-phases
(add-before 'configure 'set-environment-variables
(lambda _
(setenv "CONFIG_SHELL" (which "sh"))
#t)))))
(home-page
"https://backuppc.github.io";)
(synopsis
"Perl extension for BackupPC libraries")
(description "to be written")
(license gpl3+)))
```
Now on to the other backuppc components.
Best,
Jack
