Re: [Bug-wget] bootstrap problem

[Ángel González]

Onl 29/04/15 15:03, m_balewski wrote:
> Hi,
> It's my first mail here, so I would like to welcome you all! wget isgreat (I'm using it 
> for years) and I wish to try to look into it's codeand maybe do some changens some day :) 
> But for now, I have a problem... I've just downloaded the sources and trying to compile 
> as describedin "Compiling From Repository Sources", but after installing all 
> therequired (not required as well) packages, I'm still getting:./bootstrap: 1: eval: Bad 
> substitution ./bootstrap: Please install the prerequisite programs                        
>                                               What I need except: autoconf automake flex 
> perl texinfo gettext                                                           libidn2-0 
> and libiconv?                                                                             
>                        Regards,
> Mariusz
Which shell are you using?
It's also possible that you have some environment variable set which is 
messing things up for you.

It's posible that your problem arises from this excerpt:
>     # Honor $APP variables ($TAR, $AUTOCONF, etc.)
>     appvar=$(echo $app | LC_ALL=C tr '[a-z]-' '[A-Z]_')
>     test "$appvar" = TAR && appvar=AMTAR
>     case $appvar in
>         GZIP) ;; # Do not use $GZIP:  it contains gzip options.
>         *) eval "app=\${$appvar-$app}" ;;
>     esac

you can safely comment or remove it without problems.

Thanks for your interest on wget

Cheers