Re: installation issue when building with NO_CURL=YesPlease

From: Paul Walker <pwalker752@aol.com>
Date: May 26, 2010, 14:41 UTC
Message-ID: <24D3B56E-0EA0-4E1C-BF42-F5BF71891F78@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <4BFD290B.6050502@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On 26 May 2010, at 14:58, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> Paul Walker venit, vidit, dixit 26.05.2010 15:35:
>> As I could not find any bug reporting information on the wiki I
>> thought I would mention this here, please let me know if there is a
>> better forum for bug reports.  I believe the latest git release
>> (1.7.1.) has an installation bug when building with
>> "NO_CURL=YesPlease".  Looking at the Makefile line 1999 it reads
>>
>> for p in $(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES); do
>>
>> which results in "/bin/sh: syntax error at line 1 : `;' unexpected"  
>> as
>> REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES is empty.
>
> That seems to depend on the shell. My bash 4.1.2 doesn't care. What  
> does
> /bin/sh --version say for you?
>
> Michael

I am struggling to work this out as my version of sh does not support the --version flag. I tried a bunch of other options provided by google with not success. If it helps I believe that /bin/sh is a version of ksh that comes with AIX 6.1