texinfo: work around Solaris 10 xpg4 shell bug in install rules

* lib/am/texinfos.am (install-html-am): Use an extra variable
indirection to work around a bug in Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.
Bug revealed by a failure of `txinfo21.test'.  See also:
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-11/msg00005.html>
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10026#23>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 50aac4f1b17ca11fba0eb5deab41eb0f7511aa4d..a828c217443165f1966e82d87efe75ce63b8cc6f 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2011-11-19  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
+
+       texinfo: work around Solaris 10 xpg4 shell bug in install rules
+       * lib/am/texinfos.am (install-html-am): Use an extra variable
+       indirection to work around a bug in Solaris 10 /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.
+       Bug revealed by a failure of `txinfo21.test'.  See also:
+       <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-11/msg00005.html>
+       <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10026#23>
+
 2011-11-17  Stefano Lattarini  <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
 
        configure: report perl version in config.log

diff --git a/lib/am/texinfos.am b/lib/am/texinfos.am
index 80712cf4cae13f1c324a694d67523c9b750f5af0..5314dec8da95b6bd2582b1f0e57beaf48e399597 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/am/texinfos.am
+++ b/lib/am/texinfos.am
@@ -161,13 +161,19 @@ install-html-am: $(HTMLS)
        for p in $$list; do \
          if test -f "$$p" || test -d "$$p"; then d=; else d="$(srcdir)/"; fi; \
          $(am__strip_dir) \
-         if test -d "$$d$$p"; then \
+## This indirection is required to work around a bug of the Solaris 10
+## shell /usr/xpg4/bin/sh.  The description of the bug can be found at
+## <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2011-11/msg00005.html>
+## and the report of the original failure can be found at automake
+## bug#10026 <http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=10026#23>
+         d2=$$d$$p; \
+         if test -d "$$d2"; then \
            echo " $(MKDIR_P) '$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f'"; \
            $(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f" || exit 1; \
-           echo " $(INSTALL_DATA) '$$d$$p'/* '$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f'"; \
-           $(INSTALL_DATA) "$$d$$p"/* "$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f" || exit $$?; \
+           echo " $(INSTALL_DATA) '$$d2'/* '$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f'"; \
+           $(INSTALL_DATA) "$$d2"/* "$(DESTDIR)$(htmldir)/$$f" || exit $$?; \
          else \
-           list2="$$list2 $$d$$p"; \
+           list2="$$list2 $$d2"; \
          fi; \
        done; \
        test -z "$$list2" || { echo "$$list2" | $(am__base_list) | \