On 08/15/2010 04:11 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 08/15/10 21:26, David Fang wrote: >> I'm desperate enough to use sed to patch config.status after it's been >> generated: > > If you're that desperate, you're desperate enough to use bash > instead of the broken Darwin shell, no? > > To others: > > Would it be appropriate to patch Autoconf to generate a 'configure' > that rejects that implementation of 'echo', if it discovers the bug?
The bug is not in 'echo', but in the improper use of $(ECHO) within `` inside the Makefile. Autoconf has no business inspecting whether Makefile.am has a use of $(ECHO) that might be broken due to libtool's change of how $(ECHO) is defined, and whether that change will cause breakage because $(ECHO) is being used incorrectly in the Makefile. I don't see how changing anything in autoconf could help in this situation. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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