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libtool.m4 makes the wrong shell (dash) run libtool

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Package: libtool; Reported by: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@HIDDEN>; merged with #10303; dated Tue, 6 Dec 2011 12:01:02 UTC; Maintainer for libtool is bug-libtool@HIDDEN.
Merged 10231 10303. Request was from Mike Frysinger <vapier@HIDDEN> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. Full text available.

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Earnie writes:
>> Yeah, but the question is if Cygnus/MSYS ensure that when the Make
>> program invokes libtool it obeys the '#! <shell path>' line inside it.
>> (...)
> Yes they do.  (...)

Thanks.


BTW, I just noticed this in the GNU coding standards, 7.2.1 General
Conventions for Makefiles:

    "Every Makefile should contain this line:

      SHELL = /bin/sh

    to avoid trouble on systems where the `SHELL' variable might be
    inherited from the environment.  (This is never a problem with GNU
    `make'.)"

So Make programs differ in this, the current '$(SHELL) libtool' was
never supposed to be correct, and $CONFIG_SHELL concerns seem irrelevant.

-- 
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Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> Earnie writes:
>> Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>>> Removing $(SHELL) from LIBTOOL makes sense to me, I don't know if it
>>> will cause problems on windows though?
>>
>> I don't think it should matter.  Both Cygwin and MSYS have /bin/sh and
>> /usr/bin/sh.  Without a POSIX shell libtool is impossible anyway.
> 
> Yeah, but the question is if Cygnus/MSYS ensure that when the Make
> program invokes libtool it obeys the '#! <shell path>' line inside it.
> Windows itself does not.  I assume yes, but I don't use Windows.
> 

Yes they do.  It is a POSIX requirement.  And since Cygwin/MSYS are
emulating POSIX on Windows then it works as it should.

In Cygwin we have:
$ /bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 4.1.10(4)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

In MSYS we have:
$ /bin/sh --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (i686-pc-msys)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Executing in MSYS we have:
$ ./libtool --version
libtool (GNU libtool) 2.2.10
Written by Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@HIDDEN>, 1996

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ libtoolize --version
libtoolize (GNU libtool) 2.4
Written by Gary V. Vaughan <gary@HIDDEN>, 2003

Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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Earnie writes:
> Peter O'Gorman wrote:
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>> will cause problems on windows though?
> 
> I don't think it should matter.  Both Cygwin and MSYS have /bin/sh and
> /usr/bin/sh.  Without a POSIX shell libtool is impossible anyway.

Yeah, but the question is if Cygnus/MSYS ensure that when the Make
program invokes libtool it obeys the '#! <shell path>' line inside it.
Windows itself does not.  I assume yes, but I don't use Windows.

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Peter O'Gorman wrote:
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> will cause problems on windows though?
> 

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Peter O'Gorman writes:
> Removing $(SHELL) from LIBTOOL makes sense to me, I don't know if it 
> will cause problems on windows though?

Don't know.  Since this is for a Unix-style Makefile, I expect it
depends on Cygnus et al to compile system() and exec() in the Make
program into library calls which handle '#!'.

> If it's a problem, we can AC_SUBST(LT_SHELL) and use that (which will 
> cause problems for people not using automake, like yourself).

Eh, right.  Sounds like the shell should be inserted in the LIBTOOL
definition itself then, without going via an LT_SHELL.

Which in turn would prevent people from running libtool with another
shell if the current shell breaks, if there is any reason to do that.

-- 
Hallvard




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On 12/06/2011 05:59 AM, Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
> This is an old bug by now, but the reports I've seen do not seem to
> get at all of it.
>
> libtool.m4:LT_INIT says LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool'.
> Gnu Make exports SHELL=/bin/sh.  Maybe other Makes too, I do not know.
>
> Any advise as to what to do (other than staying with libtool 1.5)?
> For now I use the simplest fix, removing $(SHELL).  Or should
> Makefile.in be using something else than @LIBTOOL@?

Hi,

Thanks for the report.

Removing $(SHELL) from LIBTOOL makes sense to me, I don't know if it 
will cause problems on windows though?

If it's a problem, we can AC_SUBST(LT_SHELL) and use that (which will 
cause problems for people not using automake, like yourself).

Peter




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This is an old bug by now, but the reports I've seen do not seem to
get at all of it.

libtool.m4:LT_INIT says LIBTOOL='$(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool'.
Gnu Make exports SHELL=/bin/sh.  Maybe other Makes too, I do not know.

Thus even when a package is configured and built with the same $SHELL,
the libtool script can get run by another shell than it was built for.
This breaks when libtool is built as a bash script using '+=', but
$(SHELL) does not support '+='.  In my case: Ubuntu's /bin/sh = dash.

Either the LIBTOOL= line should lose $(SHELL) so the #!<shell> line in
the libtool script takes effect, or it should use e.g. $(LT_SHELL)
which would be set to the shell which libtool was built for, or
libtool should exec itself with its desired shell.  Users should not
have to set CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh.

This applies to at least libtoolize 2.4.2 and Ubuntu's patched 2.4.
I'm using aclocal 1.11.1, autoconf 2.68.


Here is a minimized example:

mkdir foo foo/m4
cd    foo
echo 'int main() {return 0;}'	> foo.c

cat <<'EOF'			> Makefile.in
top_builddir = @top_builddir@
foo.o:; @LIBTOOL@ --mode=compile @CC@ -c foo.c
EOF

cat <<'EOF'			> configure.ac
AC_INIT([foo])
AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([m4])
AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
AC_PROG_CC
LT_INIT([disable-shared])
AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile])
AC_OUTPUT
EOF

libtoolize --copy --install --quiet; aclocal -I m4; autoconf
./configure --quiet
cat Makefile; echo "libtool head == `head -1 libtool`"
make

Output:

top_builddir = .
foo.o:; $(SHELL) $(top_builddir)/libtool --mode=compile gcc -c foo.c
libtool head == #! /bin/bash
/bin/sh ./libtool --mode=compile gcc -c foo.c
eval: 1: base_compile+= gcc: not found
eval: 1: base_compile+= -c: not found
libtool: compile: you must specify a compilation command
libtool: compile: Try `libtool --help --mode=compile' for more information.
make: *** [foo.o] Error 1


Any advise as to what to do (other than staying with libtool 1.5)?
For now I use the simplest fix, removing $(SHELL).  Or should
Makefile.in be using something else than @LIBTOOL@?




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