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grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 00:49:15 +0200

Hi,

I found this today by accident - it seems that grep's ./configure
doesn't work with so called minimal bash (enabled in bash's configure
via --enable-minimal-config).

One can verify that not only by the failed ./configure process but
also by content of config.log - there are several messages like:

configure:3536: error: fn_grep: expected pattern

Tested on the latest (3.3) version. If there are good reasons why
./configure needs full bash, I guess it shouldn't reference /bin/sh in
that case.

Cheers,
Miro

Message #8 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 00:44:07 -0400

On 5/10/19 6:49 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I found this today by accident - it seems that grep's ./configure
> doesn't work with so called minimal bash (enabled in bash's configure
> via --enable-minimal-config).
> 
> One can verify that not only by the failed ./configure process but
> also by content of config.log - there are several messages like:
> 
> configure:3536: error: fn_grep: expected pattern
> 
> Tested on the latest (3.3) version. If there are good reasons why
> ./configure needs full bash, I guess it shouldn't reference /bin/sh in
> that case.
> 
> Cheers,
> Miro
> 
> 
> 

I am checking this on a Solaris system which has XPG4 sh and also ksh
but I have removed bash out of the PATH entirely.

beta$ ../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/configure \
> --enable-alias --enable-brace-expansion \
> --enable-casemod-attributes --enable-casemod-expansions \
> --enable-command-timing --enable-cond-command \
> --enable-cond-regexp --enable-debugger \
> --enable-directory-stack --enable-dparen-arithmetic \
> --enable-extended-glob --enable-extended-glob-default \
> --enable-help-builtin --enable-history \
> --enable-job-control --enable-prompt-string-decoding \
> --enable-restricted --enable-select --enable-strict-posix-default \
> --enable-xpg-echo-default --with-libiconv-prefix=/usr/local \
> --with-libintl-prefix=/usr/local
checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10
checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10

Beginning configuration for bash-5.0-release for sparc-sun-solaris2.10

checking for gcc... /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... no
checking whether /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc accepts -g... yes
checking for /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc option to accept ISO C89... 
none needed
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/local/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/local/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
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checking for sys/stat.h... yes
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../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/./support/install.sh -c
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*inbytesleft, char * *outbuf, size_t *outbytesleft);
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configure: WARNING: stdbool.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h: see the Autoconf documentation
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
configure: WARNING: stdbool.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------- ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-bash <at> gnu.org ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------- ##
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config.status: creating po/Makefile
config.status: executing default commands
beta$


So that is on ye old Solaris 10 with both XPG4 sh and also ksh around
but no bash in sight. Works fine for configure.

However compile blows up due to something strange wherein a source
file can not be accessed ??

/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -c  -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DSHELL -I. -I../.. 
-I../../../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626 
-I../../../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/include 
-I../../../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib -I/usr/local/include 
-D_EXTENSIONS_ -D__EXTENSIONS__ -D_TS_ERRNO -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -DSOLARIS -m64 -xarch=sparc -g -Xa -errfmt=error 
-erroff=%none -errshort=full -xstrconst -xildoff -xmemalign=8s 
-xnolibmil -xcode=pic32 -xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -mc -ftrap=%none 
-xbuiltin=%none -xunroll=1 -xs -xdebugformat=dwarf -errtags=yes 
-errwarn=%none -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS 
-D_TS_ERRNO  ../../../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c
command line: fatal: cannot open 
../../../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c: Permission denied
cc: acomp failed for ../../../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c
gmake[1]: *** [Makefile:62: smatch.o] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory 
'/usr/local/build/bash-5.0-007_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001/lib/glob'
gmake: *** [Makefile:673: lib/glob/libglob.a] Error 1

real 34.17
user 24.39
sys 5.70
beta$

Sure enough the file is marked as rw only for some oddball user :

beta$ pwd
/usr/local/build/bash-5.0-007_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001
beta$ ls -lapb ../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c
-rw-------   1 286      webservd   13460 Dec 16 18:10 
../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c
beta$

Comes out of the tarball that way.

Odd.  Could be because I protect the source tree from the average
user and I will not allow a build process to modify the sources on
first pass.

So tweak the rights in the source tree :

beta$ pwd
/usr/local/build/bash-5.0-007_SunOS5.10_sparc64vii+.001
beta$ ls -lapb ../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c
-rw-------   1 286      webservd   13460 Dec 16 18:10 
../bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/lib/glob/smatch.c
beta$
beta$ su -
Password:
Oracle Corporation      SunOS 5.10      Generic Patch   January 2005
beta # cd /usr/local/build/bash-5.0-007_20190512031626/
beta # chmod -fR a+r *
beta # ls -lapb lib/glob/smatch.c
-rw-r--r--   1 286      webservd   13460 Dec 16 18:10 lib/glob/smatch.c
beta # exit
beta$

Okay try again and we see undefined symbols comeing from somewhere ...

.
.
.
/opt/developerstudio12.6/bin/cc -L./builtins -L./lib/readline 
-L./lib/readline -L./lib/glob -L./lib/tilde -L./lib/malloc -L./lib/sh 
-L/usr/local/lib  -m64 -xarch=sparc -g -Xa -errfmt=error -erroff=%none 
-errshort=full -xstrconst -xildoff -xmemalign=8s -xnolibmil -xcode=pic32 
-xregs=no%appl -xlibmieee -mc -ftrap=%none -xbuiltin=%none -xunroll=1 
-xs -xdebugformat=dwarf -errtags=yes -errwarn=%none 
-D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -D_TS_ERRNO   -o bash 
shell.o eval.o y.tab.o general.o make_cmd.o print_cmd.o  dispose_cmd.o 
execute_cmd.o variables.o copy_cmd.o error.o expr.o flags.o jobs.o 
subst.o hashcmd.o hashlib.o mailcheck.o trap.o input.o unwind_prot.o 
pathexp.o sig.o test.o version.o alias.o array.o arrayfunc.o assoc.o 
braces.o bracecomp.o bashhist.o bashline.o  list.o stringlib.o locale.o 
findcmd.o redir.o pcomplete.o pcomplib.o syntax.o xmalloc.o  -lbuiltins 
-lglob -lsh -lreadline -lhistory -ltermcap -ltilde -lmalloc 
/usr/local/lib/libintl.so /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -lc 
-R/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so -R/usr/local/lib  -lsocket 
-lnsl -ldl
ld: warning: file /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so: attempted multiple 
inclusion of file
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
rl_clear_visible_line               bashline.o
rl_redraw_prompt_last_line          bashline.o
history_lines_written_to_file       bashhist.o
history_lines_read_from_file        bashhist.o
remove_history_range                bashhist.o
history_quoting_state               y.tab.o
rl_function_of_keyseq_len           bashline.o
ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to bash
gmake: *** [Makefile:582: bash] Error 2

real 20.71
user 14.33
sys 4.36
beta$

Nice.

However configure works without bash around.

-- 
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
GreyBeard and suspenders optional

Message #11 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: arnold <at> skeeve.com
To: dclarke <at> blastwave.org, 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sat, 11 May 2019 23:49:52 -0600

Hi.

Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org> wrote:

> On 5/10/19 6:49 PM, Miro Krop????ek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I found this today by accident - it seems that grep's ./configure
                                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > doesn't work with so called minimal bash (enabled in bash's configure
> > via --enable-minimal-config).
> > 

And:

> Undefined                       first referenced
>   symbol                             in file
> rl_clear_visible_line               bashline.o
> rl_redraw_prompt_last_line          bashline.o
> history_lines_written_to_file       bashhist.o
> history_lines_read_from_file        bashhist.o
> remove_history_range                bashhist.o
> history_quoting_state               y.tab.o
> rl_function_of_keyseq_len           bashline.o
> ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors. No output written to bash

This is the lack of the readline library.

> However configure works without bash around.

What you tested was bash's configure.  The original
query was about grep's configure.

HTH,

Arnold

Message #14 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>
To: arnold <at> skeeve.com, 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 03:39:23 -0400

>> However configure works without bash around.
> 
> What you tested was bash's configure.  The original
> query was about grep's configure.


oops


dc

Message #17 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: L A Walsh <bash <at> tlinx.org>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 01:14:24 -0700

On 5/10/2019 3:49 PM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found this today by accident - it seems that grep's ./configure
> doesn't work with so called minimal bash (enabled in bash's configure
> via --enable-minimal-config).
>
> One can verify that not only by the failed ./configure process but
> also by content of config.log - there are several messages like:
>
> configure:3536: error: fn_grep: expected pattern
>
> Tested on the latest (3.3) version. If there are good reasons why
> ./configure needs full bash, I guess it shouldn't reference /bin/sh in
> that case.
>
> Cheers,
> Miro
>
>
>   
Is it documented somewhere that bash's minimal config is POSIX compliant?
I'm not sure, off hand.

cc: bug-bash for comments there:

Message #20 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
To: L A Walsh <bash <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 10:29:55 +0200

On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 10:14, L A Walsh <bash <at> tlinx.org> wrote:
> Is it documented somewhere that bash's minimal config is POSIX compliant?
> I'm not sure, off hand.
Not sure either. The docs say: "This produces a shell with minimal
features, close to the historical Bourne shell" and
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.html#Bash-POSIX-Mode
explicitly mentions that all that is needed is renaming 'bash' to 'sh'
to make it POSIX compliant (what has been done in my case).

Anyway, good news for grep is that this is not a grep bug (bashism). I
have found out that this is a regression in the bash project: it has
stopped working since bash-4.3.0.

--
http://mikro.atari.org

Message #23 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in --enable-minimal-config
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 13:40:11 +0200

On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 12:47, Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org> wrote:
> I think you're probably hitting this bug:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00083.html
Thanks, that indeed looks like it.

> The exit status of subshells is broken in bash-4.3 and bash-4.4 with
> --enable-minimal-config. This is a fatal bug that would easily break
> most substantial shell scripts, including configure.
>
> The bug was fixed in bash-5.0.
Yes, 5.0 works. Do you know where the fix itself is? Commit
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=61c476d20d32dfd389c79fd4f2161a780685e42e
mentions your report and fix but it definitely does not fix it. I'd
like to backport it into 4.4.23.

> As for a minimal bash-5.0 with full POSIX compliance, aliases are
> required by POSIX but turned off by the minimal config, so you want:
> --enable-minimal-config --enable-alias --enable-strict-posix-default
Thanks, didn't know that!

-- 
http://mikro.atari.org

Message #26 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>,
 bug-bash <at> gnu.org, 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Regression in --enable-minimal-config
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 12:47:46 +0200

Op 11-05-19 om 13:08 schreef Miro Kropáček:
> It seems --enable-minimal-config isn't tested very often as both
> 4.3.48 and 4.2.x required a few #ifdef's to be added to make it
> compile (Linux).

I think you're probably hitting this bug:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00083.html

The exit status of subshells is broken in bash-4.3 and bash-4.4 with 
--enable-minimal-config. This is a fatal bug that would easily break 
most substantial shell scripts, including configure.

The bug was fixed in bash-5.0.

As for a minimal bash-5.0 with full POSIX compliance, aliases are 
required by POSIX but turned off by the minimal config, so you want: 
--enable-minimal-config --enable-alias --enable-strict-posix-default

I now often test modernish (my shell language enhancement library) 
against that shell configuration (among many others), so 
--enable-minimal-config is now a little better tested than before.

-- 
modernish -- harness the shell
https://github.com/modernish/modernish

Message #29 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in --enable-minimal-config
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 21:32:26 +0200

Op 12-05-19 om 13:40 schreef Miro Kropáček:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 12:47, Martijn Dekker<martijn <at> inlv.org>  wrote:
>> I think you're probably hitting this bug:
>>
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00083.html
> Thanks, that indeed looks like it.
> 
>> The exit status of subshells is broken in bash-4.3 and bash-4.4 with
>> --enable-minimal-config. This is a fatal bug that would easily break
>> most substantial shell scripts, including configure.
>>
>> The bug was fixed in bash-5.0.
> Yes, 5.0 works. Do you know where the fix itself is?

No, but Chet would know.

Chet only commits snapshots to git and not individual fixes, so it's 
hard to isolate any one fix from the git repo.

>  Commit
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=61c476d20d32dfd389c79fd4f2161a780685e42e
> mentions your report and fix but it definitely does not fix it.

Are you sure? I just did a test compile on that same commit with 
'--enable-minimal-config --enable-strict-posix-default --enable-alias' 
and the bug is definitely not there. Then when I back up one commit and 
run 'make' again, the bug appears.

- M.

-- 
modernish -- harness the shell
https://github.com/modernish/modernish

Message #32 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
To: Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in --enable-minimal-config
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 10:18:45 +0200

On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 21:32, Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org> wrote:
> Chet only commits snapshots to git and not individual fixes, so it's
> hard to isolate any one fix from the git repo.
Yes, I have noticed. :-)

> Are you sure? I just did a test compile on that same commit with
> '--enable-minimal-config --enable-strict-posix-default --enable-alias'
> and the bug is definitely not there. Then when I back up one commit and
> run 'make' again, the bug appears.
That's true but if you take given commit, create a patch from it and
backport it to bash-4.4, it's not working. So for me, taking this
pre-5.0-but-not-4.4-anymore commit is essentially the same option as
using 5.0.

-- 
http://mikro.atari.org

Message #35 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey <at> case.edu>
To: L A Walsh <bash <at> tlinx.org>, Miro Kropáček
 <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>, chet.ramey <at> case.edu
Subject: Re: bug#35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Mon, 13 May 2019 15:52:43 -0400

On 5/12/19 4:14 AM, L A Walsh wrote:

> Is it documented somewhere that bash's minimal config is POSIX compliant?

No. It's not. You need to add aliases to get basic compliance, then job
control and readline/history for the User Portability Utilities option.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet <at> case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Message #38 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey <at> case.edu>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>,
 Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>, chet.ramey <at> case.edu
Subject: Re: Regression in --enable-minimal-config
Date: Tue, 14 May 2019 17:20:00 -0400

On 5/13/19 4:18 AM, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> On Sun, 12 May 2019 at 21:32, Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org> wrote:
>> Chet only commits snapshots to git and not individual fixes, so it's
>> hard to isolate any one fix from the git repo.
> Yes, I have noticed. :-)

There is no guarantee that a single commit fixes the issue you want to
have fixed, especially if it's not a problem that was identified the
same way. In this case, the commit Martijn references definitely fixes a
problem with `()' subshells initializing, but it is not identical to the
problem with the grep configure script (which fails running shell functions
in pipelines, which are run in subshells).

That's similar to the report Martijn cited, but not the same. The right
one is

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-11/msg00031.html

and the right commit is

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=78a3f8a4bae8ef98daa26b64ddbc03c6fc3ffcd0

If you look at the changes in that commit, you see

+execute_cmd.c
+	- execute_subshell_builtin_or_function: call without_job_control even
+	  if JOB_CONTROL is not defined. Similar to fix from 9/23.
+	  Report from Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>

and you should be able to find the right chunk from execute_cmd.c that
mentions without_job_control().

Chet
-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
		 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet <at> case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Message #41 received at 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
To: chet.ramey <at> case.edu
Cc: 35681 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Martijn Dekker <martijn <at> inlv.org>,
 bug-bash <bug-bash <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regression in --enable-minimal-config
Date: Thu, 16 May 2019 18:01:03 +0200

On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 23:20, Chet Ramey <chet.ramey <at> case.edu> wrote:
> That's similar to the report Martijn cited, but not the same. The right one is
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-11/msg00031.html
>
> and the right commit is
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?h=devel&id=78a3f8a4bae8ef98daa26b64ddbc03c6fc3ffcd0
Cheers Chet - that change indeed fixes it.

Message #48 received at 35681-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 35681-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:32:36 -0800

As this was a bug (now fixed) in Bash not grep, I'm closing the grep bug report.

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