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[LDM #OBJ-220771]: Problems installing LDM

Hi Christian,

> > Why does this shell prompt differ from the previous one?
> 
> Just a glitch in my copy and paste :)
> 
> And I found the problem, but I don't know why it is like that....
> Nothing that I could find on google... and your suggestion did not work
> with the fast_install.
> Debugging myself the libtool execution, I found that it was a grep
> problem...
> In libtool there is a check to see if the file is a wrapper script:
> + func_ltwrapper_script_p pqutil
> + func_lalib_p pqutil
> + test -f pqutil
> + /bin/sed -e 4q pqutil
> + fgrep '^# Generated by .*libtool'
> That was the problem. The fgrep does not understand regex...
> 
> And at the beginning of libtool we have:
> # A grep program that handles long lines.
> GREP="grep"
> 
> and in my bashrc I have:
> export GREP='fgrep'
> and this caused the problem.
> 
> Now everything is fine!

Wow! You're definitely in the running for the most obscure bug ever encountered!

When the libtool(1) script expands the GREP variable using "$GREP", it's 
getting your GREP environment variable.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OBJ-220771
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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