This is a rather vague bug report; I don't have a lot of detailed
information on it. It may not even be a bug in autoconf.
The Globus software package (see www.globus.org) uses autoconf to
generate configure scripts. I recently discovered that the generated
configure scripts have problems when the software is installed in
a directory whose name contains ':' characters. (I was using a
timestamp as part of the directory name).
The configure script is invoked by a script called "globus-install".
I haven't tried to reproduce the problem by invoking configure
directly.
The configure script would have been invoked in the directory
/projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00:36:16Z
or an immediate subdirectory. It also would have been passed a couple
of options that included that path, specifying an installation prefix
and a path to find another required software package.
Here are the first few lines of one of the build logs:
========================================================================
configure: warning: Enabling dchecking host system Can't open
/projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00
Can't open /projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00:36:16Z/globus/36
Can't open
/projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00:36:16Z/globus/16Z/globus/Makefile.in
Can't open /projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00
Can't open /projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00:36:16Z/globus/36
Can't open
/projects/admin/globus/perigee/2000-05-03T00:36:16Z/globus/16Z/globus/./Configuration/makefile_header.in
/make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for rm... /usr/bin/rm
checking for echo... /usr/bin/echo
checking for mkdir... /usr/bin/mkdir
========================================================================
The workaround is painless enough; I've just deleted the ':' characters
from the directory name.
Let me know if I can be of any assistance in tracking this down.
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