Re: bash 4.4: `configure --enable-static-link --without-gnu-malloc` fails with `No rule to make target 'install-'`

[Andrew Tomazos]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

On 10/3/16 10:01 AM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 10/2/16 6:54 PM, Andrew Tomazos wrote:
>> When I try to configure and make install bash 4.4 as follows:
>>
>> $ configure --enable-static-link --without-gnu-malloc
>> $ make install
>
> What happens if you run `make install SHOBJ_STATUS=unsupported'?  Does
> that at least complete successfully?  Then I can see why it's not
> defaulting to `unsupported'.

Try this patch (and rebuild configure using `autoconf') to force the
default to unsupported if we're not going to use dynamic loading.

 

I have tested your patch and it works successfully.

(Last night I worked around by hacking the Makefile, see the patch at the end of: http://stackoverflow.com/q/39822816/1131467 )

Let me know if you need anything else from me.