On 10/01/2012 02:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 1 October 2012 20:37, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: >> Reuben Thomas wrote: >>> I get the following error while trying to make a GNU Zile release: >>> >>> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `then' >>> /bin/bash: -c: line 1: `@if test -d ../release; then \' >>> make[2]: *** [release-prep] Error 1 >>> >>> I'm using bash 4.2.24(1)-release as shipped with Ubuntu 12.04. /bin/sh >>> is dash 0.5.7. (I am slightly unclear why the error above is from >>> bash, not dash…)
Probably because SHELL is set in your makefile to point to /bin/bash based on what shell configure used, and that in turn is probably because your /bin/sh (presumably dash) lacked something that configure wanted to use (the most common problem here is that older dash lacked $LINENO support). But you'd have to check your config.log to be sure. >> release-prep: >> $(AM_V_GEN)$(MAKE) --no-print-directory -s announcement \ >> > ~/announce-$(my_distdir) >> $(AM_V_at)if test -d $(release_archive_dir); then \ >> ln $(rel-files) $(release_archive_dir); \ >> chmod a-w $(rel-files); \ >> fi > > I don't think it can be that, because that's not line 1. Yes it is. Remember that in make, each line that is not a continuation of the previous line is fed to a new '$SHELL -c' instance, and therefore, there are TWO 'line 1' locations within the release-prep rule, because there are two shells spawned. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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