Richard H Lee wrote: > It didn't occur to me to try other shells. I get the same error with > bash. It makes me wonder why it occurs on three different shells? Yes, that's because it's a bug in the configure script, not dash. Your best bet is to contact whoever provided that configure script and explain that --enable-static is not working for you. The specification that defines POSIX shell script syntax can be found at <http://unix.org/2008edition/>. Good luck, Jonathan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe dash" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html