Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 10:11:43 -0400 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> To: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Subject: Re: Why doesn't autoconf like our /bin/sh? 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>
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On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:44:33 +0200
Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> 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?
<mike
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