I keep meaning to try to switch to Gary's version but in the meantime I pushed the following; hope it fixes things for you.
>From 3dc082ab56c560491c42c12c41755d099fe1cafe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 08:40:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bootstrap: port to FreeBSD * build-aux/bootstrap (bootstrap_sync): Port sh -c usage to shells that treat '--' differently. Reported by Mats Erik Andersson in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-03/msg00012.html>. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ build-aux/bootstrap | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 59da1f8..537ae93 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2013-03-08 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> + + bootstrap: port to FreeBSD + * build-aux/bootstrap (bootstrap_sync): Port sh -c usage to shells + that treat '--' differently. Reported by Mats Erik Andersson in + <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-03/msg00012.html>. + 2013-03-08 Gary V. Vaughan <g...@gnu.org> regex: rename remaining __attribute calls to __attribute__. diff --git a/build-aux/bootstrap b/build-aux/bootstrap index bee7765..96f1e76 100755 --- a/build-aux/bootstrap +++ b/build-aux/bootstrap @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #! /bin/sh # Print a version string. -scriptversion=2013-01-20.16; # UTC +scriptversion=2013-03-08.16; # UTC # Bootstrap this package from checked-out sources. @@ -630,9 +630,13 @@ esac if $bootstrap_sync; then cmp -s "$0" "$GNULIB_SRCDIR/build-aux/bootstrap" || { echo "$0: updating bootstrap and restarting..." + case $(sh -c 'echo "$1"' -- a) in + a) ignored=--;; + *) ignored=ignored;; + esac exec sh -c \ 'cp "$1" "$2" && shift && exec "${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh}" "$@"' \ - -- "$GNULIB_SRCDIR/build-aux/bootstrap" \ + $ignored "$GNULIB_SRCDIR/build-aux/bootstrap" \ "$0" "$@" --no-bootstrap-sync } fi -- 1.7.11.7
