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Bug 356686

Summary:

AutotoolsNewMakeGenerator and InvokeAction assume sh is bash

Product:

[Tools] CDT

Reporter:

Rusty Burchfield <GICodeWarrior>

Component:

cdt-autotools

Assignee:

Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

akurtakov, cdtdoug

Version:

8.1.0

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Patch to change SHELL_COMMAND constants from "sh" to "bash".	none

Description Rusty Burchfield

2011-09-04 16:50:07 EDT

Created attachment 202723 [details]
Patch to change SHELL_COMMAND constants from "sh" to "bash".

The autotools command execution in these classes assume sh is bash.
org.eclipse.linuxtools.internal.cdt.autotools.core.AutotoolsNewMakeGenerator
org.eclipse.linuxtools.internal.cdt.autotools.ui.actions.InvokeAction

For example:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/m/695287/

Notably, sh is not bash on Ubuntu.

The attached patch "fixes" the problem by specifying bash explicitly.  Though, I am not sure why a shell is needed in the first place.

This may or may not cause issues with the Windows compatibility code contained in these files.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnston

2012-07-19 17:24:17 EDT

The command processing in Autotools has been changed to use sh -c for all commands to work on Ubuntu.  See: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=371277

Closing as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 371277 ***