[Cin] Build update

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

On Monday, April 4, 2022, mat <mnieuw at zap.a2000.nl> wrote:

> On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 17:30 +0300, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
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> On Monday, April 4, 2022, mat <mnieuw at zap.a2000.nl> wrote:
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> On Mon, 2022-04-04 at 16:18 +0300, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
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> On Monday, April 4, 2022, <mnieuw at zap.a2000.nl> wrote:
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> Hi Andrew,
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> In configure.ac is a test for Android with "uname -o" .
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> The -o option is not available in macOS. On Linux and macOS, simply
> "uname" returns the OS name (Linux or Darwin). Does this work for
> Termux too (returning Android or at least something where you can act
> on)?
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> yeah, 'uname -o' also does not work on netbsd.
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> on termux I have
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> $ uname -o
> Android
> $ uname
> Linux
> $
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> Ok, then a test first with "uname" seems best, if it does not return
> "Darwin" then "uname -o" . I can test freeBSD too.
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> anyway, on some linux systems (void linux) default shell also dislikes +=
> constructs, and I hand-edit configure as created by ./autogen.sh  there..
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> thing  is, bash can be for example in/usr/pkg/bin, (netbsd) or in some
> other location. not sure how to convince autotools to search for bash and
> put this (non-default) interpreter at very first line in our configure...
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> I think many of the thirdparty stuff only works properly with bash too.
> So we should detect which system we're running on and make sure bash is
> the shell.
> Or, if there is no /bin/bash, stop the process. If /bin/bash is missing,
> then probably more too.
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> thing is, bash can be instalked by default in some other place. some say
> to use '/usr/bin/env bash' instead..
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> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16365130/what-is-
> the-difference-between-usr-bin-env-bash-and-usr-bin-bash
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> What about putting this in the beginning of bld.sh and bld_appimage.sh,
> just after the
> #! /bin/bash
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> if [ $SHELL != /bin/bash" ] ; then
> echo "Having shell /bin/bash is mandatory"
> echo "Stopping build"
> exit
> fi
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apparently user shell and software building shell can be different
things...

https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2021-January/023434.html

i tried 'which bash' and it outputs correct path to bash on termux. does it
work for Apple/Freebsd?



> MatN
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