On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:29:47 -0700, Stremler wrote: > I recently downloaded the gnu smalltalk 2.1.7 tarball, and got some > interesting complaints when I ran ./configure: > % ./configure > Missing }. > Missing }. > Found no shell that has working shell functions. > Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about your system. Perhaps this configure script was generated from a CVS version of Autoconf in which the shell selection and "missing shell function" reporting were rather buggy. Those problems have been fixed in CVS. Re-generating the script with Autoconf 2.59 or the present-day CVS version should probably resolve the problem. -- ES