On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Mladen Jurak <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 26.05.2010 17:54, John Peterson wrote:
>> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Mladen Jurak<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>
>>>   Running bootstrap didn't help.
>>>
>>> The problem is that configure file takes the first existing shell
>>> from the sequence  "sh bash  ksh sh5", so it usually takes sh. On my
>>> system (Debian/squeeze) sh=dash and this is an inadequate choice. I solved
>>> it by changing the order of the shell sequence to "bash ksh sh5 sh".
>>>
>> Very interesting!  So is the dash shell (I've never heard of it) not
>> sh-compatible, or is our configure script generating a bash-specific
>> script?
>>
>>
> Dash is something new for me too. The man  page says:
>
> dash is the standard command interpreter for the system.
> The current version of dash is in the process of being changed to conform
> with the POSIX 1003.2 and 1003.2a specifications for the shell.  This
> version

Hrm... sounds like it might not be 100% perfect yet but 1003.2 ->
1003.2a seems like it should be a pretty small change?!

In any case, I'm glad you were able to find the workaround, hopefully
this thread will pop up for anyone searching about this issue in the
future...

-- 
John

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