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> Hi! |
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> I'm having problems on Interix6 systems regarding the system's /bin/sh. |
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> gmake uses it by default, and if it does this, I get occasional crashes |
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> somewhere in gmake (!?), and I'm absolutely unable to get either a |
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> readable |
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> backtrace or any other information about what's the problem. As soon as |
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> I |
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> start debugging, the problem vanishes in the dark.... ugh... |
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> The good news is, that there is a "workaround". If - in emake - I do |
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> "$MAKE |
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> SHELL=$BASH ..." things work flawlessly everytime. Now my questions: |
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> 1) can it do any harm to do this? Bash is guaranteed to be in use |
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> inside |
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> ebuilds, right? So this should not matter. Could there be makefiles |
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> which do |
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> something that bad, that bash doesn't choke it? |
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> 2) if this is added, should it be added for all platforms, or for |
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> interix |
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> only? |
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> 3) should this be added in prefix, or in main? |
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Please speak up, if you _don't_ want me to do this as a portage patch in the |
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prefix tree. That's what I want to do, if nobody has a problem with it ;) |
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Cheers, Markus |
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> Cheers, Markus |
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