Re: [Bug-wget] bootstrap problem

[Ander Juaristi]

On 04/29/2015 03:03 PM, m_balewski wrote:
> Hi,
> It's my first mail here, so I would like to welcome you all! wget isgreat (I'm using it 
> for years) and I wish to try to look into it's codeand maybe do some changens some day :) 
> But for now, I have a problem... I've just downloaded the sources and trying to compile 
> as describedin "Compiling From Repository Sources", but after installing all 
> therequired (not required as well) packages, I'm still getting:./bootstrap: 1: eval: Bad 
> substitution ./bootstrap: Please install the prerequisite programs                        
>                                               What I need except: autoconf automake flex 
> perl texinfo gettext                                                           libidn2-0 
> and libiconv?                                                                             
>                        Regards,
> Mariusz

You can debug the script and see if it prints something weird:

    /bin/bash -x ./bootstrap

That will most likely generate a lot of output. The interesting stuff should be 
in the bottom lines.

If you want to be a bit more precise, you can search and replace all the calls 
to eval with:

    set -x
    eval <whatever>
    set +x

"set -x" turns on the debugging and "set +x" turns it off. I know it's 
confusing but that's the it works.
If the problem is at the way Bash invokes eval, that should tell it.

--
Regards,
- AJ