Bug#351053: ftbfs: "/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file"

[Wolfgang Baer]

Max Kellermann wrote:
> On 2006/02/02 17:57, Wolfgang Baer <WBaer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>this is completely unreproducible here and on other machines.
>>
>>Please retry and if it still fails provide information about your system
>>and versions of packages involved in the build (version of make ...)
> 
> 
> It is perfectly reproducible here.  However, when I remove the
> comments in the "for" loop in debian/rules, it builds.
> 
> ii  bash                       3.1-1
> ii  make                       3.80-9

OK, you are running a stable/testing mixture.

> I'm not sure about comment syntax in lines concatenated with
> backslashes...  might be a difference in how "make" passes this
> multiline command to bash.

Yes, there were quite some discussions about changed behaviour of make 3.81
on d-devel. Maybe this is also related. If the comments are a problem I will
remove them with next upload to ease stable backports after 1.1.7 is released.

Thanks,
Wolfgang