On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:22:05AM +0100, Harald van Dijk wrote:

Hi all,

The attached patch (by Ryan Hill) fixes two minor issues that cause problems when using a non-bash shell as /bin/sh (or when forcing configure through such a shell). It replaces them with more portable equivalents. This is unchanged between 0.143 and master.

The errors dash reported were:

./configure: 5467: Bad substitution

and after fixing that:

./configure: 5498: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

both of which cause the script to abort.

Is this something you can include in the next release?

The file does not show up on the archives. I'm hoping I simply managed to forget to attach it, so re-sending.

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 03:44:48PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:

I committed something on the portable branch.

That commit seems to be missing a ;;, now even bash reports a syntax error. Other than that, it works fine with expr instead of $[] or $(()), thanks.