On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > 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. This change resolves the problem. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
