On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Eric Sunshine wrote: > I can submit a patch to autoconf-patches to make Autoconf's shell selection > more backward-compatible with earlier versions of Autoconf, however this > raises another issue. My interpretation of this thread is that Autoconf's new > shell selection behavior is exposing a latent problem with Automake; > specifically, Automake-generated makefiles do not deal with zsh in a robust > fashion. Even after patching Autoconf, it will still be possible for zsh to > be the chosen shell (it just won't be as likely), so this same problem can > continue to affect Automake. Furthermore, it does not really seem like > Autoconf's responsibility to work around a shortcoming in Automake. After > all, Autoconf has long considered zsh an acceptable shell (otherwise, those > zsh work-arounds would not be present in Autoconf), so one might expect > Automake to also consider zsh a usable shell (by employing the same zsh goop, > for instance). I agree with your conclusions. Automake Makefiles should be more robust. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen
