build bugs

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi there,

Trying to build libtool from CVS head I run into several problems,
some of which seem to be related to bash/ksh assumptions.  Following
is the first I tried to analyze (others might follow):

System:
CVS Autoconf, Automake and libtool 1.1385 2004/01/22 22:25:42) 1.5a
on a Debian testing (gcc-3.3.2, GNU make 3.80, GNU sed 4.0.7,
/bin/sh is a dash 0.4.19), i686.

Description of problem:
after building with
$ CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash ./bootstrap; [...]
this suceeds:
$ make check VERBOSE=X TESTS="demo-conf.test demo-make.test"
but this fails:
$ make check VERBOSE=X TESTS="demo-conf.test demo-make.test" 
CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh
with 
| creating .libs/helldlS.c
| extracting global C symbols from `./.libs/libhello.a'
| (cd .libs && gcc -c -fno-builtin "helldlS.c")
| helldlS.c:12: error: stray '\1' in program

More problems show up when configuring with dash alone, this one I
could boil down to the following:  bash and ash handle the attached
snippet from `libtool' wrongly, creating weird characters in the
output, outputs from
$ $SHELL -x b > $SHELL_output 2>&1
attached.

This affects files like config.status and others as well, obviously.

After checking Debian bug archives, libtool ML archives, I did not
find this bug reported.  If you think this is a bug in dash, then
let me know, so I can file a bug against dash.

Regards,
Ralf

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