David,

I just checked an buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh was set to /bin/sh. However, envvars.sh, which is where this error occurred, was already /bin/bash. Strange.

Ok, so I changed buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh to be /bin/bash and it is still failing, but carrying on past this. I am missing image/changes so it fails. Below is the output from buildsputtrunkvmmakerimage.sh:

thanks, Robert

robert@quotar:~/warren/image$ ./buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh ./updatespurimage.sh: 26: ./envvars.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected cp: cannot stat ‘trunk50.image’: No such file or directory cp: cannot stat ‘trunk50.changes’: No such file or directory /usr/bin/md5sum: cogspurlinuxht/lib/squeak/5.0-3427/squeak: No such file or directory /usr/bin/md5sum: cogspurlinuxht-15.33.3427.tgz: No such file or directory --2015-10-12 09:33:17-- http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM/VM.r3427//cogspurlinuxht-15.33.3427... Resolving www.mirandabanda.org (www.mirandabanda.org)... 69.163.128.250 Connecting to www.mirandabanda.org (www.mirandabanda.org)|69.163.128.250|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 5260651 (5.0M) [text/plain] Saving to: ‘cogspurlinuxht-15.33.3427.tgz’

cogspurlinuxht-15.33.3427 100%[====================================>] 5.02M 1.43MB/s in 3.7s

2015-10-12 09:33:21 (1.37 MB/s) - ‘cogspurlinuxht-15.33.3427.tgz’ saved [5260651/5260651]

cogspurlinuxht/squeak SpurVMMaker.image BuildSqueakSpurTrunkVMMakerImage.st Could not open the Squeak image file `SpurVMMaker.image'.

On 10/12/2015 08:29 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 06:25:48AM -0400, Robert Withers wrote:

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I am also getting an error on the image side, I've found, when running buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh.

~/warren/image$ ./buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh ./buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh: 26: ./envvars.sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected

thanks, Robert

I think I recall encountering that one. Some of the scripts specified /bin/sh in the shebang line, but the scripts required /bin/bash to run. For security reasons, some recent Linux distros (Ubuntu, maybe others) are linking /bin/sh to /bin/dash rather than to /bin/bash.

Edit the first line of those scripts and change /bin/sh to /bin/bash and the problem should go away.

(Eliot, sorry if I forgot to mention this earlier).

Dave

Thank you for this info. I started working in Pharo and got their vm building. The biggest issue was ensuring the build.sh was calling gcc-4.6, not gcc-4.9.

thanks so much ^^ Robert

On 10/14/2015 12:28 PM, Tim Olson wrote:

On Oct 12, 2015, at 5:25 AM, Robert Withers robert.w.withers@gmail.com wrote:

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I am also getting an error on the image side, I've found, when running buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh.

~/warren/image$ ./buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh ./buildspurtrunkvmmakerimage.sh: 26: ./envvars.sh: Syntax error: "(“ unexpected

I think this is due to incorrect bash function declaration syntax in that file, which uses both the keyword “function” and the empty parenthesis “()”.

In the syntax described here:

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/functions.html

a bash function should either have the form:

function function_name { command… }

OR function_name () { command… }

i.e. not both the keyword “function” and the parenthesis.

— tim