On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 11:45 +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Any reasons against this plan? Basically none. But ... current cvs autoconf's configure seems completely defective to me: With a fresh cvs checkout as of a couple of minutes ago on FC4: # ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnu checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether sh -n works... yes checking for expr... no checking for gm4... no checking for gnum4... no checking for m4... no checking whether m4 supports frozen files... yes checking for perl... no ... # which perl m4 expr /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/m4 /usr/bin/expr ?!?!? Corresponding excerpt from config.log: .... configure:2144: checking for expr configure:2162: found /usr/bin/expr configure:2175: result: no configure:2195: checking for gm4 configure:2226: result: no configure:2195: checking for gnum4 configure:2226: result: no configure:2195: checking for m4 configure:2213: found /usr/bin/m4 configure:2226: result: no configure:2236: checking whether m4 supports frozen files configure:2248: result: yes configure:2274: checking for perl configure:2292: found /usr/bin/perl configure:2306: result: no ... Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
