Re: In rcs 5.9.1 build-aux/extract-help is bash-specific

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Thien,

Am 20.10.2013 um 13:51 schrieb Thien-Thi Nguyen:
> () Dagobert Michelsen <address@hidden>
> () Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:55:00 +0200
> 
>   in rcs 5.9.1 build-aux/extract-help uses a bash-specific construct,
>   but has a sh hashbang.  The grep command may return 1 which aborts
>   the execution of the script in sh, but not bash.  Forcing the
>   returncode to true fixes the issue as in this patch: [...]
> 
>   The issue occurred when compiling on Solaris 10 Sparc with Sun Studio 12.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.  Is this behavior w/ Solaris /bin/sh
> controlled by the "set -e" at the beginning of the script?  That is,
> does simply removing the "set -e" achieve the same effect as adding
> "; true" to the inside-backtick command?

Indeed, taking out "set -e" also makes the script not bail out, but now I get

/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -D_STDC_C99= -D_STDC_C99=  -m32 -xarch=sparc  -m32 
-xarch=sparc -L/opt/csw/lib -o rcs rcs.o ci.o co.o rcsclean.o rcsdiff.o 
rcsmerge.o rlog.o super.o libparts.a -L../lib -lgnu 
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
ya_ci                               super.o ld: fatal: symbol referencing 
errors. No output written to rcs


Best regards

  -- Dago