Re: error building print/sile

[Mandacarú Cascavel <mancasc%yahoo.com.br@localhost>]

Thank you, Roland. Now I have print/sile working again. In it's new version.

Cascavel

Em 19/02/2022 08:24, Roland Illig escreveu:
> Am 19.02.2022 um 05:41 schrieb Mandacarú Cascavel:
> > Hi, Friends.
> >
> > Thank you for readily updating pkgsrc/print/sile to the new version
> > 0.12.2. Unhappily I am getting an error when building the package:
> >
> > ./configure: 16205: Syntax error: Bad substitution
>
> When such an error occurs, you are lucky since it contains the exact
> error location. Line 16205 of work/sile-0.12.2/configure contains:
>
> > $SED -e "${program_transform_name//\$\$/\$}"
>
> The substitution '/.../.../' is only supported by bash, not by the
> regular POSIX shell.
>
> The quick workaround is to add the following to the package Makefile:
>
> USE_TOOLS+=    bash
> CONFIG_SHELL=    ${BASH}
>
> The proper fix is to tell the upstream authors that they should not use
> bash-specific features in their configure.ac file.
>
> I'm in a hurry right now so I cannot properly test it, but that's how it
> should work.
>
> Roland