[MPlayer-advusers] Error with dash shell

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:06:34PM -0400, Brice wrote:
> 
> When I use dash as sh and I want to compile mplayer with the french 
> translation, I have an error after the 'make' :
> 
> cc -c -I../libvo -I../../libvo -I/usr/X11R6/include -fno-PIC -O4
> -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -pipe -ffast-math
> -fomit-frame-pointer -D_REENTRANT -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I.      -I/usr/include/freetype2  
> -I/usr/X11R6/include   -I./libavutil -I./libavcodec   -o mplayer.o
> mplayer.c
> In file included from mplayer.c:45:
> help_mp.h:1453: error: syntax error before string constant
> help_mp.h:1455: error: missing terminating " character
> In file included from mplayer.c:47:
> m_option.h:24: error: syntax error before 'm_option_type_flag'
> [cut]
> 
> 
> and after a flood of other similar errors it ends without compiling.
> 
> I use the today svn version. And the configure options :
> ./configure --language=fr --charset=UTF-8
> 
> With the english language or with bash as sh this error don't appear. So 
> there is probably a script marked as /bin/sh whereas it need /bin/bash.

Does it work if you replace /bin/sh with /bin/bash in help/help_diff.sh?

Diego