From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 14:11:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3607A10656F9 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: from mired.org (five.mired.org [66.92.153.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B4C78FC15 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 14:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org) Received: (qmail 15123 invoked by uid 1001); 16 May 2008 10:11:45 -0400 Received: from bhuda.mired.org (bhuda [192.168.195.1]) by bhuda (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 16 May 2008 10:11:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:11:43 -0400 To: Stefan Farfeleder Message-ID: <20080516101143.3545937c@bhuda.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20080516074433.GA1032@lizard.fafoe.narf.at> References: <20080309152712.42752293@bhuda.mired.org> <20080516074433.GA1032@lizard.fafoe.narf.at> Organization: Meyer Consulting X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; amd64-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Mike Meyer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Why doesn't autoconf like our /bin/sh? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 14:11:20 -0000 On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:44:33 +0200 Stefan Farfeleder wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:27:12PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > > I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not > > sure quite what to do with it. I've already sent mail to the autoconf > > folks, but I'd like to understand what's going on. > > > > The problem is that, on a FreeBSD system with only /bin/sh and the > > ports zsh as installed shells, if you have SHELL set to zsh when > > invoking the autoconf-generated configure script, the script produces > > a broken Makefile. It doesn't generate an error, it just complains > > that: > > Can you please retry? /bin/sh now supports expanding $LINENO which was > often the reason for configure not liking it. Which branch, and how recently? http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org