On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 18:09, Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote: > >>> "Robert" == Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Robert> configure:1847: cd conftest && eval autoconf -o /dev/null conftest.ac > Robert> autom4te: cannot open /dev/null.tmp: Permission denied > > Robert> Is this a 'need to use 2.59' thing? (If so, the error is misleading). > > It works fine with Autoconf 2.58. I wonder if your version of Autoconf > is patched, or if autoconf is a wrapper, or something. I can't see where > this `.tmp' suffix would come from.
I'm on debian unstable, so there is a wrapper - but I bypassed it with the same results. Two things combined got it going for me: 1) ./bootstrap 2) doing an in-source-tree configure. I'm not sure which one fixed it. Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
