[luatex] Problem building 0.50.0 (and trunk)

[Taco Hoekwater]

Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 12:10:11PM +0100, luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My last attempt to build the current trunk, as well as 0.50.0, failed. Surely
>>> this is a problem with my local configuration, but I used to be able to build
>>> luatex successfully on this machine. Below is the end of the output from
>>> build.sh, and I attach config.log in case it may contain clues.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Manuel.
>> Try to add
>> export CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
>> to build.sh
> 
> Since this is a common problem, can't this line be added to build.sh in
> the repository?

Not like this, because the location of /bin/bash is not guaranteed
and it is quite possible that /bin/sh is working just fine. So,
it would need some kind of extra test of the existence of /bin/bash,
and only do the export if /bin/bash actually exists.

I am bad at shell programming, but if I receive such a patch it
will certainly be added.

Best wishes,
Taco