id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
777,top-level configure is broken,eponym,nobody,"{{{
The top-level configure script in the RC1.34.0 release
is broken.

This script starts out as:

    #!/bin/sh

which implies that it is a Bourne-shell script.
But now almost all of tests in the file have been
converted to look like the following:

    220 if test ""x$LIBDIR"" == x; then
    221   LIBDIR=""$EPREFIX/lib""
    222 fi

where (in 1.33.1) they used to look like this:

    217 if test ""x$LIBDIR"" = ""x"" ; then
    218   LIBDIR=""$EPREFIX/lib""
    219 fi

The problem is that ""=="" is not a valid Bourne-shell
test-command operator, so the entire build breaks
immediately on any platform which uses a true
Bourne shell as sh.

The fix is to either convert all of these operators
to ""="", or to stop claiming the script is a Bourne
shell script and use ""#!/bin/bash"" instead.  But the
latter approach is not recommended because there are
many older machines without bash in that location.

}}}",Bugs,deleted,,build,Boost 1.34.0,,Duplicate,,