An Emacs user saw these messages and thought they were a bug in Emacs.
If this condition does not mean that configuring will fail,
and does not indicate a bug, would you please make the message say so?
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From: Andreas Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: emacs-22.0.99 configure problem]
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:53:35 +0200
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Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> % ./configure
> as_func_failure succeeded.
> as_func_failure succeeded.
> No shell found that supports shell functions.
> Please tell autoconf@gnu.org about your system,
> including any error possibly output before this
> message
>
> It seems to tell the user this is a bug and that he should
> report it.
The latter is true, but the first isn't. The point of the message is to
collect information about systems that still are using obsolete shells.
> If this is not a bug, then the message shouldn't look like a bug.
Please tell autoconf@gnu.org about that.
Andreas.
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"And now for something completely different."
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