Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:50:19 -0400 (EDT) From: aa8vb@ipass.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Cc: aa8vb@ipass.net Subject: ports/13276: Python port needs a hack for FreeBSD's non-standard /bin/sh read command Message-ID: <199908202350.TAA15973@stealth.ipass.net.>
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>Number: 13276
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Python port needs a hack for FreeBSD's non-standard /bin/sh read com\
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Aug 20 17:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Randall Hopper
>Release: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
self
>Environment:
Stock 3.2-RELEASE. Python 1.5.2 (built from ports).
>Description:
See the PR:
bin/13274: /bin/sh 'read' command does not work correctly
for details, but basically FreeBSD /bin/sh 'read' does not honor
continuation lines like other UNIXes do by default. One has to
specify a FreeBSD-specific switch to get it to behavior in the
standard way.
The effect for the Python port/package is that Python's makesetup
fails when fed a standard Setup file (e.g. PyOpenGL) because it
doesn't honor the continuation lines by default. One could hack
Setup files each time, but the better hack (until FreeBSD's /bin/sh
read command is brought in line) is to patch the Python makesetup
script when the package is built to invoke read with the
FreeBSD-specific handle-continuation-lines option (see below).
>How-To-Repeat:
Grab PyOpenGL, untar, cd src, cp Setup.CONFIGURE Setup.proto,
python BUILD.py, and you will see this breakage:
/usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/makesetup -m Makefile.pre -c /usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/config.c.in Setup -n /usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/Setup.thread /usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/Setup.local /usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/Setup
bad word \ in _glut \
*** Error code 1
Stop.
*** Error code 1
Stop.
Under the hood, what's going on is this:
$ read line
some text here \
$ more text
text: No such file or directory
$ echo $line
some text here \
# NOTE: On other unices you get this:
> sh
$ read line
some text here \
more text
$ echo $line
some text here more text
>Fix:
Please insert this patch into the patches subdirectory of the Python
port. Thanks.
--- ./Modules/ORIG/makesetup Tue May 11 13:15:09 1999
+++ ./Modules/makesetup Fri Aug 20 19:47:32 1999
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
LIBS=
LOCALLIBS=
BASELIBS=
- while read line
+ while read -e line
do
# Output DEFS in reverse order so first definition overrides
case $line in
>Release-Note:
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