Package: autoconf Severity: wishlist If the autoconf tool is run under a particular shell, the autoconf tool may switch shell during build (via m4sh _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL).
This causes a problem with package testing, because a test or development machine may incidentally have an additional shell installed that is not present on the target machine. By switching shell, the build scripts are not being tested on the invocation shell, and the generated scripts may not work correctly when transferred to a target machine. It would be useful to have a switch to prevent autoconf from switching shell. Mark. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (60, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-486 Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages autoconf depends on: ii debianutils 2.30 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii m4 1.4.13-3 a macro processing language ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages autoconf recommends: pn automake | automaken <none> (no description available) Versions of packages autoconf suggests: pn autobook <none> (no description available) pn autoconf-archive <none> (no description available) pn autoconf-doc <none> (no description available) pn autoconf2.13 <none> (no description available) ii gettext 0.17-8 GNU Internationalization utilities pn gnu-standards <none> (no description available) pn libtool <none> (no description available) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
