From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 00:06:06 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 3D5F81065675 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:06:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03E108FC1A for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:06:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from dereel.lemis.com (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59094DDDEE; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:50:32 +1100 (EST) Received: by dereel.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 791618B1C5; Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:50:29 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:50:29 +1100 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Mike Meyer Message-ID: <20080309235029.GD86378@dereel.lemis.com> References: <20080309152712.42752293@bhuda.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pZs/OQEoSSbxGlYw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080309152712.42752293@bhuda.mired.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-3-5346-1370 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Why doesn't autoconf like zsh? (was: 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: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:06:06 -0000 --pZs/OQEoSSbxGlYw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday, 9 March 2008 at 15:27:12 -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: > > ... > > Setting SHELL to /bin/sh, or unsetting it, also solves this. This is pretty clear that this is a zsh issue, either because of bugs in zsh or (more likely, I'd guess) in autoconf. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --pZs/OQEoSSbxGlYw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFH1HdhIubykFB6QiMRAkA9AJ0fpcjcW0gCQpofBmxyoZjxzZFjZwCeO89k 4cQafn+PReoaSa5r7PLPmfQ= =QXnH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pZs/OQEoSSbxGlYw--