Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 07:24:31 +0200 From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> * Sam Sirlin wrote on Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:41:03PM CEST: > From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@xxxxxx> > /bin/bash --version > echo $PATH > type mkdir expr dirname basename > > dirname is apparently the issue. I had an old dirname shell script > lying around from 1989 in my path (version 1.5). It worked well enough > for the old 2.59 configure, but not for the new one which seems to > use a new construction "dirname -- ..." Is your script home-grown or does it have some wider usage? What does it output upon dirname -- / It's old code from SVr2, so it may be lurking around on old systems. I probably grabbed it someday before sun had added it in (sun4?). kalessin{sam} > old_dirname -- / . sun solaris 9 has apparently a shell script v 1.7 (SVr4) that behaves more like gnu: kalessin{sam} > /usr/bin/dirname -- / / I've tried this and it works with the new configure. ? I'm asking because maybe we can easily rule that out as non-working, maybe even just by if (as_d=`dirname -- /` && test "$as_d" = /) >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo good else echo bad fi Sam Sirlin Email: sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf