Re: [Bug-wget] bootstrap problem

[Mariusz Balewski]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 08:37:49PM +0200, Ángel González wrote:
> 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?

bash 4.3.11

> 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.

Thank you, for such a quick answer.
I commented whole 'case-esac' (4 lines) as you suggest and now have:
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: autoconf   2.62: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'autoconf   2.62' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: automake   1.11.1: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'automake   1.11.1' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: autopoint  -: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'autopoint  -' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: gettext    0.17: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'gettext    0.17' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: git        1.4.4: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'git        1.4.4' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: makeinfo   -: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'makeinfo   -' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: perl       5.5: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'perl       5.5' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: rsync      -: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'rsync      -' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: tar        -: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'tar        -' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: xz         -: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'xz         -' not found
./bootstrap: 421: ./bootstrap: flex       -: not found
./bootstrap: Error: 'flex       -' not found

it's strange, because I have:
autoconf, ver. 2.69
automake, ver. 1.14.1
autopoint, ver. 0.18.3
gettext, ver. 0.18.3
git, ver. 1.9.1
makeinfo, ver. 5.2
perl, ver. 5.18.2
rsync, ver. 3.1.0
tar, ver. 1.27.1
xz, ver. 5.1
flex, ver. 2.5.35

Could you, please, give me any advice, how to run it?

> Thanks for your interest on wget

Thanks for wget :)

> Cheers