On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 10:02:14 -0500 (CDT), Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > > This suggests that shell running this code does not split $list > > and $subdir get the full list. Zsh would do that. Could you > > compare the output of grep 'SHELL =' Makefile on the working and > > non-working tarballs? > Working: > % grep 'SHELL =' Makefile > SHELL = /bin/bash > Non-working: > % grep 'SHELL =' Makefile > SHELL = /bin/zsh > It is true that my login shell is /bin/zsh. This has never caused > a problem before (I have been using zsh as my shell since 1996). > It is incorrect to assume that the user's login shell is the shell > that should be used. CVS Autoconf looks for a shell which supports functions and $LINENO. Apparently, your zsh satisfies those requirements, so Autoconf is happy with it. > Even if zsh is used, there are well-documented ways to tell Zsh to > split arguments like the Bourne shell does. Unfortunately, this would > require that extra cruft appear in the Makefiles. Indeed, Autoconf invokes the goop to tell Zsh to split like Bourne, but this doesn't help Automake-generated makefiles. Can you apply the following manual edit to the configure script (not the configure.ac file) and report if it fixes the problem? In configure, find the line: as_candidate_shells="$SHELL" Change it to: as_candidate_shells="" If that resolves the problem, I will submit an appropriate patch for Autoconf. -- ES
