Re: pkg/48075: compilation of devel/gtexinfo fails

[Jörn Clausen <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/48075; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Clausen?= <joern.clausen%uni-bielefeld.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>, 
pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/48075: compilation of devel/gtexinfo fails
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:58:13 +0200

 On 23.07.13 10:45, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 >   >  Running "texi2dvi --help" yields:
 >   >
 >   >  $ ./work.pkgsrc-i86/texinfo-5.1/util/texi2dvi --help
 >   >  ./work.pkgsrc-i86/texinfo-5.1/util/texi2dvi[1979]: no closing quote
 >   >
 >   >  The shell script is 1978 lines long. Maybe this is closer to the real 
 > error:
 >   >
 >   >  $ bash ./work.pkgsrc-i86/texinfo-5.1/util/texi2dvi --help
 >   >  ./work.pkgsrc-i86/texinfo-5.1/util/texi2dvi: line 1106: syntax error 
 > near unexpected token `'
 >
 >   I don't see this, and I don't see anything wrong around line 1106.
 
 It probably triggers a bug in pdksh and bash. /bin/sh on Solaris 10 does 
 not have any problems with the script either. So upstream of texinfo is 
 the wrong tree to bark up...
 
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