While tracking down the apparent non-problem with OBJEXT I followed
somebody's advice and ran the "configure" step under "sh -x", which produced
the following output on the Ultrix box:
...
MISSING=${SHELL} /pogo/users/stenn/src/ntp.001227/missing
+ eval ${SHELL} /pogo/users/stenn/src/ntp.001227/missing --run :
+ /bin/sh /pogo/users/stenn/src/ntp.001227/missing --run :
/bin/sh: <BA>: not found
WARNING: `:' is needed, and you do not seem to have it handy on your
system. You might have modified some files without having the
proper tools for further handling them. Check the `README' file,
it often tells you about the needed prerequirements for installing
this package. You may also peek at any GNU archive site, in case
some other package would contain this missing `:' program.
am_missing_run=
...
The <BA> is probably really a single control character, expanded by "less".
H
