Re: Error: Unexpected "(" in "...`(..."

[Chet Ramey]

tjoen wrote:

> I have no problems with that line after the prompt too.
> The problem only appears in the configure-script of swig.
> I forgot to mention that I have no ruby installed
> and that I have tried the option --without-ruby
> but with the same result:
> ....
> checking whether Guile's gh_ API works... no
> checking whether Guile's SCM_ API works... no
> ./configure: line 7487: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./configure: line 7487: `       RUBYDIR=`($RUBY -rmkmf -e 'print 
> Config::CONFIG["archdir"] || $archdir') 2>/dev/null`'

I was able to run configure without errors using bash-3.2.17.  I encourage
you to apply the available bash-3.2 patches and try it again.

Chet

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