Note that mksh is virtually a superset of OpenBSD ksh and accepts this construct, for a quick fix.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1525682 Title: configure: fix POSIX compatibility issue Status in QEMU: New Bug description: When running configure script from 2.5.0-rc4 on OpenBSD-current (amd64), I get the following error: ./configure[4756]: ${nettle:+($nettle_version)}": bad substitution *** Error 1 in . (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2747 '/usr/ports/pobj/qemu-2.5.0rc4/.configure_done') *** Error 1 in /usr/ports/openbsd-wip/emulators/qemu (/usr/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk:2491 'configure') Indeed, construct "${nettle:+($nettle_version)}" does not conform to POSIX Shell Command Language. The attached patch fixes the issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1525682/+subscriptions
