Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 09:33:55 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Bill Milford <freebsd@milfordmail.com> Subject: Re: configure scripts ignores parameters Message-ID: <20060303173355.1F0FB45041@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 2006 12:22:31 EST." <20060303172231.GA8478@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 12:22:31 -0500 > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > > --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:44:17AM -0600, Bill Milford wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@fre= > ebsd.org] On Behalf Of > > > Nicolas Rachinsky > > > Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 5:20 AM > > > To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Re: configure scripts ignores parameters > > >=20 > > > * "Elisey O. Savateev" <b3k@mail.ru> [2006-03-03 16:10 +0500]: > > > > Fri, 3 Mar 2006 11:56:09 +0100 > > > > Nicolas Rachinsky <fbsd-stable-0@ml.turing-complete.org> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you have shells/bash (bash-3.1.10) installed? > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes. I have. > > >=20 > > >=20 > > > I had one problem here, but unfortunately not the time to really look > > > at it (and I don't have time to try it again). > > >=20 > > > My bash3 here did not correctly process > > > | for foo > > > | do echo "$foo" > > > | done > > > A similar contruct seems to be in some (most, all?) configure scripts, > > > which automatically use bash to be executed (if it's available). > > >=20 > > > I installed shells/bash2 (bash-2.05b.007_4) and my problem > > > disappeared. > > >=20 > > > HTH, > > > Nicolas > > >=20 > > > -- > > > http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas > > [Bill Milford]=20 > > I am having the some problem. My temporary fix is to either install bash= > -3.0.16_1 which is the > > latest bash package available or you can set CONFIG_SHELL=3D/bin/sh in yo= > ur environment. =20 > > The configure scripts will use bash if available and when it re-executes = > itself, somehow the > > command line options do not get passed correctly. Even the most simple o= > ption: ./configure --help > > fails. It was causing the previously reported issues with the apr-db4 po= > rt. It causes problems > > for me in the OpenCA configure script. I suspect that it will affect man= > y ports that use > > ./configure scripts to pass parameters. I am going to re build all of my= > ports when this is > > finally resolved. > > I hope someone has reported this error to the bash developers. If te latest bash version fixes the problem, it's a bit too late to report it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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