Dependencies (was Re: Spammers catching on)

[David Relson]

At 11:25 AM 12/31/02, Parker Morse wrote:

>There is indeed. A few posts on the list confirmed that my GCC is 
>(probably) NOT the problem, but I still reserve the possibility that 
>something exotic in the Cobalt configuration is at the root of things.
>
>So I wiped out my old directory, and did a clean install from the tarball:

... [snip] ...

>./t.score1: syntax error near unexpected token `then'
>FAIL: t.score1

"syntax error" indicates that the wrong shell is running.  The syntax error 
is in script tests/t.frame, which is run by script tests/t.score1.  All the 
scripts start with "#!/bin/sh" and expect the bash shell (though Matthias 
may tell me they're supposed to be shell independent).  What do you get if 
you run "/bin/sh --version"?  Try changing the "#!/bin/sh" lines to 
"#!/bin/bash" and see what happens.


>I have copied a transcript of the whole session which I'm sending in 
>another message, but that's what I saw indicating that all tests failed.
>
>Thanks for taking the time to look at this; I've been assuming all along 
>that I was simply using obsolete software (and perhaps I am), but perhaps 
>there's something here I can work around.
>
>pjm