On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 01:57:17AM -0500, Jon Ringle wrote:
> Changing the /bin/sh link to point to bash instead of dash fixed this for me
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Jon Ringle <jon@ringle.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm setting up a new machine with Ubuntu-14.04 where I'll be doing ptxdist
> > builds. I'm running into a problem where the targetinstall step fails on
> > all packages with something like the following (I added 'set -x' to the
> > fakeroot script for debugging purposes):
[...]

I think I saw this at some point, but then it worked again and I never made
a patch. Does this help?

Michael

diff --git a/rules/host-fakeroot.make b/rules/host-fakeroot.make
index 53236194a582..3fb699a56759 100644
--- a/rules/host-fakeroot.make
+++ b/rules/host-fakeroot.make
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ HOST_FAKEROOT_DIR    := $(HOST_BUILDDIR)/$(HOST_FAKEROOT)
 # Prepare
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

+HOST_FAKEROOT_CONF_ENV := \
+       $(HOST_ENV) \
+       CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash
+
 HOST_FAKEROOT_CONF_TOOL := autoconf
 HOST_FAKEROOT_CONF_OPT := \
        $(HOST_AUTOCONF) \