On 5/3/07, Christophe Kalt <kalt(a)taranis.org&gt; wrote: Thank you for the feedback. Did you run configure without a HOME environment variable? It may not be documented anywhere in the autoconf documentation, but this is probably not allowed (at least for autoconf-2.13). Fortunately, this is a very rare condition - I have never seen this bug reported before, so I think the potential benefit of fixing this problem is very low. Therefore, if we had a bug tracking system, I'd mark this bug as WONTFIX. Regards, Vin Shelton -- The Journey by Mary Oliver http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6771&poem=30506 _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Vin Shelton writes: We should fix the quoting problem, though, since it's trivial to do so. At least the Bash man page specifies the argument to -c as "a string", so it needs quotes if it contains spaces. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

Vin Shelton wrote: Hi Vin: I hate spaces too, but I have to deal with them because we have Windows users who have brought the habit to our Unix system. This should work (but, I don't actually see what the code is supposed to be doing): if test `pwd` != `sh -c "cd \"$srcdir\" && pwd"` \ _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta

On 5/3/07, Vin Shelton <acs(a)alumni.princeton.edu&gt; wrote: Here's a partial diff that I generated against configure (_not_ configure.in) that allows configure to get down to the creation of config.status. This kind of quoting is hard-won, to say the least. If anyone wants to pick this up and generate a complete configure.in patch, I'm certainly willing to have a look at it. --- /home/acs/cvsroot/xemacs-21.4/configure 2006-12-07 22:12:30.000000000 -0500 +++ ./configure 2007-05-03 20:22:19.000000000 -0400 ＠＠ -878,7 +878,7 ＠＠ absolute_pwd="`pwd`"; -if test -n "$PWD" -a "`cd $PWD && pwd`" = "$absolute_pwd" +if test -n "$PWD" -a "`cd "$PWD" && pwd`" = "$absolute_pwd" then blddir="$PWD" else blddir="$absolute_pwd"; if test -d "/net"; then if test -d "/tmp_mnt/net"; then tdir="tmp_mnt/net"; else tdir="tmp_mnt"; fi ＠＠ -898,8 +898,8 ＠＠ fi ;; esac -if test `pwd` != `sh -c cd $srcdir && pwd` \ - && test -f "$srcdir/src/config.h"; then +if test "`pwd`" != "`sh -c cd $srcdir && pwd`" \ + && test -f "'$srcdir/src/config.h'"; then (echo "$progname: WARNING: The directory tree \`$srcdir' is being used" echo " as a build directory right now; it has been configured in its own" echo " right. To configure in another directory as well, you MUST" ＠＠ -1118,7 +1118,7 ＠＠ echo $ac_n "checking "host system type"""... $ac_c" 1>&6 echo "configure:1120: checking "host system type"" >&5 internal_configuration=`echo $configuration | sed 's/-\(workshop\)//'` -canonical=`${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} $srcdir/config.sub "$internal_configuration"` +canonical=`${CONFIG_SHELL-/bin/sh} "$srcdir"/config.sub "$internal_configuration"` configuration=`echo "$configuration" | sed 's/^\([^-][^-]*-[^-][^-]*-[^-][^-]*\)-.*$/\1/'` canonical=`echo "$canonical" | sed 's/^\([^-][^-]*-[^-][^-]*-[^-][^-]*\)-.*$/\1/'` echo "$ac_t""$configuration" 1>&6 ＠＠ -3392,13 +3392,13 ＠＠ fi ac_aux_dir= -for ac_dir in $srcdir $srcdir/.. $srcdir/../..; do - if test -f $ac_dir/install-sh; then - ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir +for ac_dir in "$srcdir" "$srcdir/.." "$srcdir/../.."; do + if test -f "$ac_dir/install-sh"; then + ac_aux_dir="$ac_dir" ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install-sh -c" break - elif test -f $ac_dir/install.sh; then - ac_aux_dir=$ac_dir + elif test -f "$ac_dir/install.sh"; then + ac_aux_dir="$ac_dir" ac_install_sh="$ac_aux_dir/install.sh -c" break fi Regards, Vin -- The Journey by Mary Oliver http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6771&poem=30506 _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta