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Re: installation issue when building with NO_CURL=YesPlease

From
DSDirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date
May 26, 2010, 19:03 UTC
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<4BFD7082.1080608@dirk.my1.cc>
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Am 26.05.2010 20:45 schrieb Bruce Stephens:
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> Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> I had a similar problem when "make install"ing under AIX. Not with
>> NO_CURL but with some other NO_* option. I forgot which.
>> This yealded to an empty $(REMOTE_***_ALIASES) macro
>> (REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES in your case) which my AIX shell cannot handle.
>>
>> It reads "for p in; do" which makes it unhappy. I solved my problem
>> with the SHELL_PATH environment variable (look at the first few lines
>> in the Makefile).
>>
>> $ SHELL_PATH=/bin/bash NO_SOMETHING=YesPlease make install
>>
>> then worked fine for me.
> 
> It wouldn't be too horrible to fix the Makefiles, though.  Doing stuff
> like this works portably (judging by what some OpenSSL Makefiles do):
> 
> 	foo="$(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES)"; for i in $$foo; do \
> 
> [...]
> 
Bruce,

I just saw that Michael posted a patch which tests for the emptyness of REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES. Probably that's a more convenient solution.

Dirk
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Message 9 of 22 in “installation issue when building with NO_CURL=YesPlease”
  1. Paul WalkerMay 26, 2010
  2. Michael J GruberMay 26, 2010
  3. Paul WalkerMay 26, 2010
  4. Ramkumar RamachandraMay 26, 2010
  5. Paul WalkerMay 26, 2010
  6. Makefile: reenable install with NO_CURLMichael J Gruber, May 26, 2010
  7. Dirk SüsserottMay 26, 2010
  8. Bruce StephensMay 26, 2010
  9. Dirk SüsserottMay 26, 2010
  10. 1/2 Makefile: remove some unnecessary curly bracesBrandon Casey, Jul 2, 2010
  11. 2/2 Makefile: work around ksh's failure to handle missing list argument to for loopBrandon Casey, Jul 2, 2010
  12. Raja R HarinathJul 3, 2010
  13. Michael J GruberJul 4, 2010
  14. Johannes SixtJul 5, 2010
  15. Michael J GruberJul 5, 2010
  16. Johannes SixtJul 5, 2010
  17. Michael J GruberJul 5, 2010
  18. Junio C HamanoJul 5, 2010
  19. Andreas SchwabJul 5, 2010
  20. Brandon CaseyJul 5, 2010
  21. Junio C HamanoJul 6, 2010
  22. 2/2 Makefile: work around ksh's failure to handle missing list argument to for loopBrandon Casey, Jul 6, 2010

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