Hi, I rewrote those several lines of code - does it look OK now? It appears to execute fine.
Regards, Lace
diff -u -ru autoconf-2.57-orig/lib/autoconf/status.m4 autoconf-2.57/lib/autoconf/status.m4 --- autoconf-2.57-orig/lib/autoconf/status.m4 Tue Nov 12 11:54:46 2002 +++ autoconf-2.57/lib/autoconf/status.m4 Wed Dec 10 21:30:50 2003 @@ -1026,11 +1026,17 @@ dnl mv $tmp/out $ac_file dnl fi if test x"$ac_file" != x-; then - mv $tmp/out $ac_file + rm -f $ac_file +dnl Keep 'executable' attribute. + for f in $ac_file_inputs; do + cp $f $ac_file + chmod u+w $ac_file + done + cat $tmp/out >$ac_file else cat $tmp/out - rm -f $tmp/out fi + rm -f $tmp/out m4_ifset([AC_LIST_FILES_COMMANDS], [ # Run the commands associated with the file.