Re: ksh bug on Tru64 UNIX causes current libtool failure

[Nicolas Joly]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:09:21PM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> * Nicolas Joly wrote on Wed, May 18, 2005 at 05:03:05PM CEST:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:33:01AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > 
> > > If not, let me see: This failure only causes quote.test to fail, and
> > > causes a lot of extra quotes in the libtool output, but no real failure.
> > > Is that correct?
> > 
> > Not really.
> > 
> > I can't even compile libtool 1.5.18 on my Tru64 unix V5.1B
> > workstation:
> *snip*
> > /bin/ksh ./libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H  -I. -I. -I.  
> >     -g -c -o ltdl.lo ltdl.c
> > libtool: compile: libobj name `ltdl.lo' may not contain shell special 
> > characters.
> > *** Exit 1
> 
> That'll teach me to ever do fatal errors based on shell correctness
> assumptions again.  :(
> 
> Could you as well please: run the script I sent in another message in
> this thread and report the exact ksh version this is on, so we can
> mention it in the Autoconf portability section?

address@hidden [~]> /bin/ksh
$ set -o emacs
$ Version M-11/16/88f

script output attached.

> Just to see whether I have missed any other occurrences: Does libtool
> compile and work with the patch below (except maybe a lot of extraneous
> quotes)?

It seems to work fine. I only noticed ksh quotation warnings and
quote.test failure ...

> And for possible workarounds:  Does Tru64 ship another shell suitable
> for use as CONFIG_SHELL?  Please try with
>   CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/foosh /bin/foosh path/to/libtool/configure [OPTIONS]

AFAIK only /bin/ksh and /bin/sh are available ...

> I believe it might be the best to just completely back out the other
> patch again (as well as the one below).  :(
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 
> diff -u -r1.334.2.69 ltmain.in
> --- ltmain.in 4 May 2005 13:52:10 -0000       1.334.2.69
> +++ ltmain.in 18 May 2005 21:07:44 -0000
> @@ -742,7 +742,6 @@
>      esac
>      if test "X$libobj" != "X$qlibobj"; then
>       $echo "$modename: libobj name \`$libobj' may not contain shell special 
> characters."
> -     exit $EXIT_FAILURE
>      fi
>      objname=`$echo "X$obj" | $Xsed -e 's%^.*/%%'`
>      xdir=`$echo "X$obj" | $Xsed -e 's%/[^/]*$%%'`
> 
> 
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-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.

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