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Remove some bashisms from configure.ac #2607

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@0mp 0mp commented Dec 30, 2018

"configure.ac" is used to generate "configure", which is supposed to be
run with /bin/sh (as suggested by the shebang line of "configure"). As a
result it is a good idea to remove any /bin/sh-incompatible syntax from
configure.ac. Otherwise, systems that do not use Bash as their /bin/sh
are unable to run "configure" due to syntax errors.

"configure.ac" is used to generate "configure", which is supposed to be
run with /bin/sh (as suggested by the shebang line of "configure"). As a
result it is a good idea to remove any /bin/sh-incompatible syntax from
configure.ac. Otherwise, systems that do not use Bash as their /bin/sh
are unable to run "configure" due to syntax errors.
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0mp commented Jan 2, 2019

Related to #2604.

@edolstra edolstra merged commit 2fadd30 into NixOS:master Jan 7, 2019
@0mp 0mp deleted the configure.ac-fix branch January 8, 2019 09:52
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This line from configure.ac

    if printf '%s' "${name}" | egrep '^[_[:alpha:]][_[:alnum:]]*$'

ends up being

    if printf '%s' "${name}" | egrep '^_[:alpha:]_[:alnum:]*$'

in configure after running ./bootstrap.sh, which results in

  • grep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]
  • and, hm, I guess, in the end, it just does not what it was meant to.

I’m not sure how this even works 😕.

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0mp commented Jan 9, 2019

Hmm, it looks like we have to escape [ and ] here (https://stackoverflow.com/a/2309394/4694621).

0mp added a commit to 0mp/nix that referenced this pull request Jan 9, 2019
This patch attempts to solve the regression introduced in e8b0efd
(NixOS#2607).
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