NB We spoke about the $RANDOM issue back in November 2016.
I still don't really understand how this creeps in from the automake build system, nor do I wish to dig deep enough into automake to find out why. I noticed on my build system I had seemingly quite old copy of various *.m4 files (from 2013!) in Viking's local m4/ directory. However upon refreshing everything it made absolutely no difference to the generated configure file. So I suppose you are using the one of the compressed releases of VIking and running the './configure' file provided directly? Since the 'configure' file itself is generated on my Debian Linux machine I guess it therefore thinks $RANDOM is available. Perhaps you should try running the autotools stuff directly to generate the configure file for your system(s). c.f. When acquiring Viking directly from source code repository there is no configure file; so here one needs to run the ./autogen.sh script to generate one. However ATM autogen.sh is not in the compressed releases. I don't why Viking would be any different to any other typical program autotools build systems though. -- Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. ________________________________________ From: Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> Sent: 18 March 2020 13:36 To: viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Viking-devel] another portability nit In configure, we patch $(INTLTOOL_V_MERGE)_it_tmp_dir=tmp.intltool.$$RANDOM to $(INTLTOOL_V_MERGE)_it_tmp_dir=tmp.intltool.not-random $RANDOM is a bashism not specified by POSIX, and not available in a number of shells. (It is available in NetBSD's /bin/sh, but pkgsrc has a bunch of portability checks because pkgsrc does not require that a platforms /bin/sh have anything beyond what POSIX requires.) I'd suggest changing to $(INTLTOOL_V_MERGE)_it_tmp_dir=tmp.intltool.viking.$$$$ I have not tested; I am guessing this passes $$ to the shell after make quoting. That should be enough not to collide, even if there are multiple viking builds happening at once. _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
