THANK YOU!!!!! On Thursday, 23 March 2017 15:23:27 UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > I get through to > > > checking build system type... amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0 > > checking host system type... amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0 > > configure: error: > > You are attempting to build Sage on the FreeBSD operating system > > ... > > > as it should have been all along, if I change #! /bin/sh > > to bash in the 1st line of configure. > > > Gory details, if anyone cares: > > without this, there are apparent bash-isms in ./configure: > > in line 2969/70: > > test "x$ac_build_alias" = x && > > ac_build_alias=`$SHELL "$ac_aux_dir/config.guess"` > > is meant to test that ac_build_alias is empty and call config.guess > And this fails; namely, if I remove test "x$ac_build_alias" = x && > config.guess gets executed and I get a bit further: > > checking for root user... no > > checking build system type... amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0 > > checking host system type... Invalid configuration `x': machine `x' not > recognized > > configure: error: bash config/config.sub x failed > > > So it fails due to a similar problem involving "test" a bit later on. > > Specifically, if I replace > > > if test "x$host_alias" = x; then > > ac_cv_host=$ac_cv_build > > else > > ac_cv_host=`$SHELL "$ac_aux_dir/config.sub" $host_alias` || > > as_fn_error $? "$SHELL $ac_aux_dir/config.sub $host_alias failed" > "$LINENO" 5 > > fi > > > with > > > ac_cv_host=`$SHELL "$ac_aux_dir/config.sub" $ac_build_alias` || > > as_fn_error $? "$SHELL $ac_aux_dir/config.sub $ac_build_alias failed" > "$LINENO" 5 > > > I get through to > > > checking build system type... amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0 > > checking host system type... amd64-unknown-freebsd11.0 > > configure: error: > > You are attempting to build Sage on the FreeBSD operating system > > ... > > > as it should have happened all along. > > > > Any idea what causes this weirdness (perhaps it's just something one has > to accept, that /bin/sh has to be very much > > like bash nowadays)? > > > SHELL is set to /usr/local/bin/bash > > which is > > $ bash --version > > GNU bash, version 4.4.12(1)-release (amd64-portbld-freebsd11.0) > > > > > On Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 4:07:42 PM UTC, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >> >> running ./configure after >> ./bootstrap fails with >> >> checking build system type... Invalid configuration `x': machine `x' not >> recognized >> configure: error: bash config/config.sub x failed >> >> Any idea how to proceed? >> >> $ uname -a >> FreeBSD dimpase-bsd.cs.ox.ac.uk 11.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 >> #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 01:43:23 UTC 2016 >> r...@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 >> >>
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