On Sunday, 9 March 2008 at 15:27:12 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not > sure quite what to do with it. I've already sent mail to the autoconf > folks, but I'd like to understand what's going on. > > The problem is that, on a FreeBSD system with only /bin/sh and the > ports zsh as installed shells, if you have SHELL set to zsh when > invoking the autoconf-generated configure script, the script produces > a broken Makefile. It doesn't generate an error, it just complains > that: > > ... > > Setting SHELL to /bin/sh, or unsetting it, also solves this.
This is pretty clear that this is a zsh issue, either because of bugs in zsh or (more likely, I'd guess) in autoconf. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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