The following ,hopefully, gives you the idea of the problem. The example is from the automake manual with slight alterations to run as a C++ program. Another example, would be configuring pecl-cairo downloaded from svn.php.net. The same relevant line numbers appear in all configure output.However, if I add to a macro to find sed for example, the macro succeeds but line 37 below still appears. ~/jupiter/source_files/ch5-> autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.65 Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. operating system Ubuntu 10.4 (2.65-3ubuntu1(lucid) Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Dem-> cd ~/automake/projects/amhello ~/automake/projects/amhello-> ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out checking for suffix of executables... checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 ./configure: line 3004: sort: No such file or directory ./configure: line 3001: sed: No such file or directory configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating config.h config.status: config.h is unchanged config.status: executing depfiles commands ./configure: line 40: sort: No such file or directory ./configure: line 37: sed: No such file or directory ~/automake/projects/amhello-> relevant portion of configure -contains lines 3005 and 3007 # `set' quotes correctly as required by POSIX, so do not add quotes. sed -n "/^[_$as_cr_alnum]*_cv_[_$as_cr_alnum]*=/p" ;; esac | sort ) | sed ' /^ac_cv_env_/b end t clear :clear s/^\([^=]*\)=\(.*[{}].*\)$/test "${\1+set}" = set || &/ t end s/^\([^=]*\)=\(.*\)$/\1=${\1=\2}/ :end' >>confca //contains line 37 and 40 esac fi
as_nl=' ' export as_nl # Printing a long string crashes Solaris 7 /usr/bin/printf. as_echo='\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\' as_echo=$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo$as_echo as_ech
