-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Thomas wrote: > Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote: > >> When trying to rebuild tktable for FE5, I got the following error >> (from >> http://buildsys.fedoraproject.org/logs/fedora-development-extras/5422-tktable-2.9-8.fc5/i386/build.log): >> >> >> ./configure: line 9966: syntax error near unexpected token `(' >> ./configure: line 9966: ` case `(ac_space=' '; set | grep >> ac_space) 2>&1` in' >> >> According to the above, it would seems the following script would >> fail on FC5: >> >> case `(ac_space=' '; set | grep ac_space) 2>&1` in *ac_space=\ *) >> echo 0 ;; *) echo 1 ;; esac; >> >> I doubt it (works on FC4, must be something else in configure), >> but I do not have an FC5 box to check it... > > > This is a problem with the tcl.m4 file that came with earlier > versions of Tcl. There is a quoting bug in the file that was not > exposed until bash 3.1 was packaged with FC5. Many tcl extensions > were bitten by this bug. > > Grab the latest tcl.m4 from sourceforge and re-run autoconf to fix > the problem. Or take a look at the patch that I made for tclxml in > FE (which fixes some missing lib problems as well). > > FWIW, the offending line in tcl.m4 is: > > system=MP-RAS=`awk '{print }' /etc/.relid'` > > (note the unmatched single quote near the end) Thanks so much, it worked. I owe you one... - -- Jean-Luc Fontaine http://jfontain.free.fr/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEBiEwkG/MMvcT1qQRApf9AJ9cnzWx3SN2W7QS5cbYqkTM1LFC/QCfTIRe 8ZOSi+K/lvgvyb81B+H6Fuc= =+YDZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list