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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Removing configure flags?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:17:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d0ti7i0i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1614975.CsQVqhEBAj@aleksandar-ixtreme-m5740> (HiPhish's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2018 12:59:49 +0200")

Hello,

HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> skribis:

> Thanks to both of you I can now at least get the configure script to run, but 
> it stops because it cannot find `cat`:
>
> starting phase `configure'
> building for Linux on localhost at Tue Sep 11 10:46:19 UTC 2018
> looking for /bin/sh./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
>  (nope)
> looking for bash./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
> ./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
> ./configure: line 89: expr: command not found

[...]

> From my understanding, `cat` is part of coreutils, which is already an 
> implicit input of the GNU build system. So the configure script should have 
> it, shouldn't it?

Indeed.  Could it be that ‘configure’ overrides PATH, setting it to,
say, /bin:/usr/bin?  (You mentioned ‘getconf PATH’ yesterday on IRC,
perhaps that’s related?)

HTH,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-12 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-10  9:27 Removing configure flags? HiPhish
2018-09-10  9:57 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-09-11  0:04   ` Alex Vong
2018-09-11 10:59     ` HiPhish
2018-09-12 17:17       ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-09-12 17:54         ` HiPhish

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