An Emacs user saw these messages and thought they were a bug in Emacs. If this condition does not mean that configuring will fail, and does not indicate a bug, would you please make the message say so? ------- Start of forwarded message ------- X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> To: rms@xxxxxxx Cc: emacs-devel@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: [hiroshi.fujishima@xxxxxxxxx: emacs-22.0.99 configure problem] Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:53:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <E1Hhrle-0001XI-Pq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Richard Stallman's message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:35:34 -0400") MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Richard Stallman <rms@xxxxxxx> writes: > % ./configure > as_func_failure succeeded. > as_func_failure succeeded. > No shell found that supports shell functions. > Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about your system, > including any error possibly output before this > message > > It seems to tell the user this is a bug and that he should > report it. The latter is true, but the first isn't. The point of the message is to collect information about systems that still are using obsolete shells. > If this is not a bug, then the message shouldn't look like a bug. Please tell autoconf@xxxxxxx about that. Andreas. - -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." ------- End of forwarded message ------- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
