build: try to get dash/bash for sanity

The "local" builtin is not part of POSIX.  We want it.  Try harder to
get a vaguely sane shell, rather than just a POSIX shell.

Also, safeguard to error out more gracefully if invoked from outside the
build process.

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/scripts/lookups-Makefile b/src/scripts/lookups-Makefile
index d2caf70c8..61493c632 100755
--- a/src/scripts/lookups-Makefile
+++ b/src/scripts/lookups-Makefile
@@ -24,6 +24,22 @@ then
   _XPG=1
   export _XPG
 
+  # We need the _right_ tr, so must do that first; but if a shell which
+  # we're more confident is sane is available, let's try that.  Mostly,
+  # the problem is that "local" is not actually in "the" standard, it's
+  # just in every not-insane shell.  Though arguably, there are no shells
+  # with POSIX-ish syntax which qualify as "not insane".
+  for b in /bin/dash /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash
+  do
+    if [ -x "$b" ]
+    then
+      SHELL="$b"
+      break
+    fi
+  done
+  # if we get a report of a system with zsh but not bash, we can add that
+  # to the list, but be sure to enable sh_word_split in that case.
+
   exec "$SHELL" "$0" "$@"
 fi
 
@@ -41,6 +57,16 @@ tab='	'
 LC_ALL=C
 export LC_ALL
 
+if [ -f "$defs_source" ]
+then
+  :
+  # we are happy
+else
+  echo >&2 "$0: ERROR: MISSING FILE '${defs_source}'"
+  echo >&2 "$0: SHOULD HAVE BEEN CALLED FROM scripts/Configure-Makefile"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
 # nb: do not permit leading whitespace for this, as CFLAGS_DYNAMIC is exported
 # to the lookups subdir via a line with leading whitespace which otherwise
 # matches