Compiling via autogen: Syntax error Bad substitution

[Guest tron]

hey,

 

I am trying to compile SVN GemRB 2.9.

When do ./autogen from ~/gemrb/gemrb/trunk it always results in:

tron@torment:~/gemrb/gemrb/trunk$ ./autogen.sh

 

./autogen.sh: 26: Syntax error: Bad substitution

 

I just started with linux, thus maybe one can help me out?

 

Since line 26 of the autogen.sh points towards the version of aclocal being installed I guess that I am missing some packages ?

 

thanks in advance!

 

 

I am using kubuntu 7.10

 

and have installed

 

libsdl1.2debian

libsdl1.2debian-all

libsdl1.2-dev

 

libopenal0a vers.0.08

libopenal-dev

 

python 2.5

python2.5-dev

 

zlib1g vers. 1.233

zlib1g-dev

 

libtool

autoconf 2.61

automake 1.10

cvs 1.12

build-essential

[Guest Guest]

problem solved,

 

just changed #!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash at the beginning of the script.

 

guess it was some of these dash bash confusions.. :-)

[Guest lynx]

i'd say those substitutions are not valid sh. The other likely option is that dash doesn't conform to sh completely. I'll take a look.

[Guest lynx]

fixed that in 5004

let me know if it breaks anywhere else (with sh as the interpreter of course)