[Insight-users] "configure" dumps core - problem with /bin/sh

[Bill Hoffman]

I don't think there is an easy way to change what shell cmake uses for the
configure scripts.   What OS is this?   Do you have root access?  If
/bin/sh is broken, is there some reason you can not fix it?

-Bill


At 08:48 AM 5/29/2002 -0700, Jarek Sacha wrote:
>Short question is: How to setup ITK to use shell other then /bin/sh, e.g.
>bash, when running scripts executed by cmake or Makefiles generated by
>cmake?
>
>Now for longer explanation.
>I have problem running cmake for ITK on one of my systems. "configure"
>scripts called by cmake in vxl and vcl directories always dump core. cmake
>does not report any problems (a bug?), but since "configure" scripts are
>not able to complete, the header files that should be generated for vxl
>and vcl are not there. The problem is caused by buggy /bin/sh (this is
>established). A solution would be to run "configure" using some other
>shell, e.g. bash. I tested it by editing "configure" and replacing /bin/sh
>with path to bash; no crashes and header files are generated correctly.
>Unmodified configure files executed by bash also do not crash. It looks
>that if cmake would use different shell to execute scripts crash problem
>could be avoided. Is there a way to ask cmake to use different shell?
>
>Jarek
>
>__________________________________________________
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup
>http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
>_______________________________________________
>Insight-users mailing list
>Insight-users@public.kitware.com
>http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/insight-users