Re: -current's usr.bin/make problems with pkgsrc

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:05:23 +0000
David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:41:10PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > 
> > I just tried building converters/fribidi with what I think is the
> > newest make, and got this:
> > 
> >     ===> Checking for vulnerabilities in fribidi-0.10.9
> >     => Checksum SHA1 OK for fribidi-0.10.9.tar.gz
> >     => Checksum RMD160 OK for fribidi-0.10.9.tar.gz
> >     ===> Installing dependencies for fribidi-0.10.9
> >     => Build dependency libtool-base>=1.5.18nb5: found
> > libtool-base-1.5.26 => Build dependency pkg-config>=0.19: found
> > pkg-config-0.23 ===> Overriding tools for fribidi-0.10.9
> >     sh: Syntax error: Bad substitution
> >     *** Error code 2
> > 
> >     Stop.
> >     make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/converters/fribidi
> >     *** Error code 1
> 
> I'll try to nail down that corner wed eve.
> 
Thanks.  I can't fix the problem without a very long head start to
understand the current code, but at least I can find test cases to help
you...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb