Re: libfontenc build failure

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> up to date pkgsrc head, recent netbsd-5, i386, all depending packages up
> to date (via pkg_rr):
>
> checking if cc -std=gnu99 supports -Wredundant-decls... yes
> checking if cc -std=gnu99 supports -Werror=implicit... no
> checking if cc -std=gnu99 supports -errwarn=E_NO_EXPLICIT_TYPE_GIVEN 
> -errwarn=E_NO_IMPLICIT_DECL_ALLOWED... eval: 1: Syntax error: Bad substitution
> *** Error code 2

I have the same on 5.99.51/amd64. This is a shell syntax problem in
all the Xorg libs, including libX11, libXext and so on. The workaround
that I found is to install mksh and set CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/pkg/bin/mksh
in mk.conf.

--Benny.

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