Bug with makesetup on FreeBSD
Andrew Csillag
andrew at starmedia.net
Fri Apr 16 14:35:55 EDT 1999
Randall Hopper wrote:
>
> Andrew Csillag:
> |makesetup in Python 1.5.1 and 1.5.2 bombs on lines in the Setup file
> |that use backslash continuation to break a module spec across lines on
> |FreeBSD.
>
> BTW FWIW, I just built 1.5.2 last night on 3.0-RELEASE using the 1.5.2c1
> port. Worked fine. But it may not invoke makesetup under the hood.
>
> Randall
It does invoke makesetup (that's how the Makefile in Modules gets
written). I'm also running FreeBSD 2.2.8, so it may be a bug in /bin/sh
that has been subsequently fixed... The quick test is to try this on
your 3.0 machine
$ read line
some text here\
On my 2.2.8 machine after I hit return after the \, I get a command line
prompt, not a "blank prompt" that would mean that the read wasn't done.
In either case, I was able to get the thing built without the patch, I
just had to type make -e SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash, but that sucks.
Drew Csillag
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