Re: need help with shell / configure

On 03/12/2013 04:27 PM, Matúš Kukan wrote:
> With ./configure --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
> --host=arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf I get:
>      ...
>      checking which languages to be built... en-US
>      checking for alternative branding images directory... ./configure:
> 35560: ./configure.lineno: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
> configure: error: Running configure script for BUILD system failed,
> see CONF-FOR-BUILD/config.log
>
> I can avoid this by commenting brand_vars and brand_files variables in
> configure but no idea what is wrong.
> It happens in configure for build platform running inside configure
> for host platform.
> Is it possible to re-write that part of configure ?
> What could be wrong ?

<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=8d16259c3428c3badfe7d156546be05ab0796a9c> 
"Consolidated branding in configure" introduced the use of the 
bash-specific array extension into configure.ac, which is likely not a 
good idea.

Stephan