Hello and welcome Martin! Martin Lucina wrote in <20190326085412.bujtthf5j27qy...@nodbug.lucina.net>: |I'm trying to build the latest stable/stable from Git |(045ca9fad936c657356f8f237beea2ba6df70392) on Debian buster/testing. |Building from a clean Git tree gives me the following error: | |Setting up configuration options ... done |Joining in ./make.rc ... ERROR: invalid syntax in: # Add support for |history management. ... |[... lots more of the above, followed by ...] | |mk/make-config.sh: 77: .obj/___tmp122378: Syntax error: EOF in backquote |substitution |makefile:22: recipe for target 'config' failed |make: *** [config] Error 1 | |There are no logs or anything in .obj/ that I can see so presumably this is |failing early in the 'config' target. | |Going on the "invalid syntax" messages, if I remove the indentation in |make.rc on the lines it complains about then that problem goes away, but I |still get the "Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution".
Which shell are you using? I have never seen such messages, and have tested with some shells on some OSs, and it works with all but an old Schily shell (which fails on something different, i have not yet found time to update and recheck that)! Assignments to indented variables are absolutely allowed by the standard i would say. |I've also tried on Debian stable to rule out any weirdness in current |testing and get the same result. | |Any ideas? Not at the moment, no. |BTW, the reason I'm building stable/stable as opposed to just using the |version packaged in Debian buster (14.9.11) is that version gives me a |bunch of MIME-related errors when loading my Dovecot-hosted IMAP mailboxes. |Is this a known problem? Not until today. Which errors do you see, could you show them, please? In general i am interested in fixing all errors. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
