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* bug#40641: Building from git breaks when /bin/sh isn't bash
@ 2020-04-15  9:06 elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
  2020-04-15 12:21 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 19+ messages in thread
From: elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2020-04-15  9:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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When building from git, ./bootstrap ends up generating (via automake) several
Makefiles that set SHELL = /bin/sh. However, some targets contain rules that
make use of bashisms. This leads to breakage when /bin/sh is something other
than bash.

In particular, I am building from a foreign distro which links /bin/sh to dash.
Currently, this ends up breaking the build, the details of which I reported
to guix-devel in [0].

As a workaround, at the moment we have to force make's SHELL to point to bash.
The cleanest way to do this is probably as follows:

    $ make SHELL=$(command -v sh)

since from within guix environment --pure guix, sh ends up pointing to bash.
Just for clarity, here is how this looks for me, currently:

    $ git rev-parse HEAD
    2708ae3d69b54d8323ca84fd9a7fb108a6ee96ba
    $ guix environment --pure guix
    $ readlink -f $(command -v sh)
    /gnu/store/29jhbbg1hf557x8j53f9sxd9imlmf02a-bash-minimal-5.0.7/bin/bash

[0]:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-04/msg00232.html

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2020-04-15  9:06 bug#40641: Building from git breaks when /bin/sh isn't bash elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-04-15 12:21 ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2020-04-17 14:57   ` elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-10  0:34     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-13 14:40       ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-06-14 16:09         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-21  0:20           ` elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-06-21  9:02             ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-07-04 11:22               ` elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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2022-07-07 21:52                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-08  8:53                   ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-07-08  8:58                     ` pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
2022-07-08  9:51                     ` elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-10  4:56                     ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-10 10:13                       ` elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
     [not found]                       ` <62caa649.1c69fb81.5b288.1112SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2022-07-10 19:55                         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-11 13:48                           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-07-19  4:14                             ` elaexuotee--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2022-07-21 15:29                               ` Maxim Cournoyer

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