George R Goffe <grgo...@yahoo.com> writes: > This error message appears because line 500 of the configure script has an > improperly(?) formed if statement: > > > 500 if ls -dL / >/dev/null 2>&1; then
This statement is perfectly correct. It is testing the exit code of executing the ls command. Your problem is definitely somewhere else. > when changed to the following, the message goes away: > > 500 if [ ls -dL / >/dev/null 2>&1 ]; then This would be an errorneous use of the test builtin, hidden only due to fact that stderr is redirected to /dev/null. $ test ls -dL / -bash: test: -dL: binary operator expected Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
