pkgsrc-users: pkgsrc on fedora seems to need /bin/(ba)sh replaced by /bin/(k)sh

Subject: pkgsrc on fedora seems to need /bin/(ba)sh replaced by /bin/(k)sh
To: None <pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org>
From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 12/01/2006 09:32:37

On a Fedora box, /bin/sh is bash. pkgsrc is having a lot of problems
building, with complaints about embedded `...` execution instances
inside case ... logic, inherited down from configure stuff.

its also dying on sort +2n instances.

is this a well known gotcha for pkgsrc on some annoying distros?

I've got over the sh stuff by doing a replace of ksh for sh, but I
haven't yet worked out what tickles the sort problem.

-G


# bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# uname -a
Linux mirin.apnic.net 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5smp #1 SMP Fri Nov 10 13:22:44 EST 2006 i686
# sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97
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