[snipping automake@ from cc:] On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:09:30AM -0800, Bruce Korb wrote: > On Tuesday 25 January 2005 01:37 am, Noah Misch wrote: > > The message is not meaningful because this Never Happens :) > > Ah. Good. Then I didn't see it. :) That is to say, this only happens by a bug in `autoreconf' or a broken host environment. No user mistake should elicit that message. > > $ cat /etc/[Ss]*release > > SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 (i586) The autoreconf-related bits of the test suite do pass on an SLES 9 system with perl-5.8.3-32.1. Do you have a weird umask? Unusual /tmp mode, ACLs, or mount options? SELinux? What version of autoconf? I do not think post-2.59 CVS contains changes that relate to your report, but you might test CVS just in case. > In chasing this down, I also noticed that my /tmp directory was packed full of > ah* am* cg* ar* directories left lying around. Full of stuff, too. Can I suppose > that if I can find the cause of this problem I won't see this ditrius either? Yes. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf