No shell found that supports shell functions

[jaya krishna]

Hi,

I am working with WIndows XP, and i downloaded autoconf-2.63. When i tried
to execute the command ./configure the following error was displayed. What
should i do.




$ ./configure
      0 [main] sh 4752 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
sh.exe.stackdu                                             mp
      0 [main] sh 5908 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
sh.exe.stackdu                                             mp
./configure: line 441:  5908 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ( eval
"as_fu                                             nc_return () {
  (exit \$1)
}
as_func_success () {
  as_func_return 0
}
as_func_failure () {
  as_func_return 1
}
as_func_ret_success () {
  return 0
}
as_func_ret_failure () {
  return 1
}

exitcode=0
if as_func_success; then
  :
else
  exitcode=1
  echo as_func_success failed.
fi

if as_func_failure; then
  exitcode=1
  echo as_func_failure succeeded.
fi

if as_func_ret_success; then
  :
else
  exitcode=1
  echo as_func_ret_success failed.
fi

if as_func_ret_failure; then
  exitcode=1
  echo as_func_ret_failure succeeded.
fi

if ( set x; as_func_ret_success y && test x = \"\$1\" ); then
  :
else
  exitcode=1
  echo positional parameters were not saved.
fi
test \$exitcode = 0" )
No shell found that supports shell functions.
Please tell bug-autoc...@gnu.org about your system,
including any error possibly output before this message.
This can help us improve future autoconf versions.
Configuration will now proceed without shell functions.
      0 [main] sh 5328 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
sh.exe.stackdu                                             mp
      0 [main] sh 3396 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to
sh.exe.stackdu                                             mp
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane...       0 [main] sh 3024
open_stackd                                             umpfile: Dumping
stack trace to sh.exe.stackdump
./configure: line 1945:  3024 Segmentation fault      (core dumped) ( set X
`ls                                              -Lt $srcdir/configure
conftest.file 2> /dev/null`; if test "$*" = "X"; then
    set X `ls -t $srcdir/configure conftest.file`;
fi; rm -f conftest.file; if test "$*" != "X $srcdir/configure conftest.file"
&&                                              test "$*" != "X
conftest.file $srcdir/configure"; then
    { { $as_echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: ls -t appears to fail.  Make sure
there                                              is not a broken
alias in your environment" 1>&5; $as_echo "$as_me: error: ls -t appears to
fail.                                               Make sure there is not a
broken
alias in your environment" 1>&2; }; { ( exit 1 ); exit 1; }; };
fi; test "$2" = conftest.file )
configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files!
Check your system clock



Jaya Krishna Sunkara.