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From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
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References: <44013740.6000609@kashzone.info> <86r75qednn.fsf@xps.des.no>
Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kash Pande <kash@kashzone.info>
Subject: Re: /bin/sh doesn't run autoconf'ied configure scripts correctly
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Kash Pande <kash@kashzone.info> writes:
> 
>>I'm running 6.1-BETA1, and I guess this is a part of the 27,000
>>regressions that happened from 5.4 to 6.1, however, when using sh as
>>the bourne code interpreter, configure scripts fail to execute.
> 
> 
> The likelihood of this being a sh(1) bug is pretty much nil.  The
> ports cluster builds the entire ports collection about once a week.
> There are currently 11,901 ports with a GNU configure script, so the
> ports team should have encountered this by now.
> 
> Judging from the error messages you quote, it's more likely that there
> is something wrong with your installed version of m4, or that you have
> installed a package with a buggy aclocal script which confuses m4.
> 
> DES

A related possibility is that you need to amend the include path for 
aclocal correctly/differently. On 6.0R I get a sensible result out of 
autogen.sh if I change the aclocal command to:

run_or_die $ACLOCAL -I m4 -I /usr/local/share/aclocal

cheers

Mark