I actually have bash installed as /bin/sh and /bin/bash. But I also have heirloom sh installed, which installs itself as /sbin/sh, and that happened to be first in my $PATH.
Since the makefiles use "sh script" to run the scripts, that called the heirloom sh. http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/sh.html It is, it turns out, derived from OpenSolaris. So there you go :-) When I delete /sbin/sh, qemu builds. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1347555 Title: qemu build failure, hxtool is a bash script, not a /bin/sh script Status in QEMU: New Bug description: hxtool (part of the early build process) is a bash script. Running it with /bin/sh yields a syntax error on line 10: 10 STEXI*|ETEXI*|SQMP*|EQMP*) flag=$(($flag^1)) $(( expr )) is a bash extension, not part of /bin/sh. Note that replacing the sh in the first line in hxtool with /bin/bash does not help, because the script is run manually from the Makefile with sh: 154 $(call quiet-command,sh $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool -h < $< > $@," GEN $@") The fix is to change those lines to 154 $(call quiet-command,bash $(SRC_PATH)/scripts/hxtool -h < $< > $@," GEN $@") (there are five or so). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1347555/+subscriptions
