autocsan failure

2004-02-11 Thread Lars Hecking
Trying to auto* a project. $ autoscan --version autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.59 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FI

Autoconf Error Messages

2004-02-11 Thread Drummonds, Scott B
Hi, everyone, After upgrading my existing build environment to Autoconf 2.54 (it took a lot of work to get it here from 2.13, and upgrading my not be possible), I'm getting the following error messages, and I don't know where to start. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1047> autoconf configure:2675: error: possi

Shell-parsing test program (was Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0)

2004-02-11 Thread Eric Siegerman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:48:09AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > $ echo / // /// .// //. > $ echo abc| tr -t ab // Here's a trivial little debugging aid I can't live without, for testing and isolating just such things without driving oneself crazy, or resorting to painful contortions like

RE: Autoconf Error Messages

2004-02-11 Thread Drummonds, Scott B
Apologies, all. My missing macro definitions were due to an incomplete macro directory search path. This is an issue with my build environment, and not Autoconf-specific. Sorry, Scott > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Drummonds,

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Lars Hecking
> Does any Tru64 expert know whether this bug has been fixed in later > versions, (e.g., Tru64 5.1A) and/or whether it was present in earlier > versions (e.g., Tru64 5.0A or 4.0G)? Is a patch available for Tru64 > 5.1? On Tru64 4.0F (OSF1 V4.0 1229 alpha), I get two slashes. The machine has o

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 12:33:52PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've never heard of a shell performing the // -> / substitution > > indiscriminately. > > Me neither. > > Autoconf is littered with code like this: > > ac_script='s/\$U\././;s/\.o$//;

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Jim Meyering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) wrote: > I tried coreutils 5.1.3 on hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11 and alphaev68-dec-osf5.1. > I ran into several problems, documented below. ... Thanks again for the testing and report. > alphaev68-dec-osf5.1, gnu make 3.79.1, osf cc > > configure works >

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Michael Elizabeth Chastain
$ x=// $ eval "echo \$x" / Okay, I confirm this on spe147.testdrive.hp.com with /bin/sh. $ echo / // /// .// //. / / // /// ./ //. Confirmed. This also happens with /usr/bin/echo. $ set -x $ echo abc| tr -t ab // + echo abc + tr -t ab / /bc Confirmed on the "+" lines,

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Paul Eggert
Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've never heard of a shell performing the // -> / substitution > indiscriminately. Me neither. Autoconf is littered with code like this: ac_script='s/\$U\././;s/\.o$//;s/\.obj$//' ac_i=`echo "$ac_i" | sed "$ac_script"` This passes an argument wit

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable 5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Jim Meyering wrote: > That's due to a bug in OSF 5.1's /bin/sh. it's been Tru64 for a few years. time to upgrade. > When I ran that same test a few days ago, I found that it would > pass when invoked using bash, and so I didn't dig any deeper. > Your report has prompted me t

Re: coreutils-5.1.3 released: bug-fix-only, candidate for stable5.2.0

2004-02-11 Thread Bruce Korb
Paul Eggert wrote: > Autoconf is littered with code like this: > > ac_script='s/\$U\././;s/\.o$//;s/\.obj$//' > ac_i=`echo "$ac_i" | sed "$ac_script"` > > This passes an argument with two trailing slashes to 'sed'. > Does it misbehave too, under OSF/Tru64 5.1? It cannot possibly and if it d

Re: func_infer_tag() broken on IRIX 6.5

2004-02-11 Thread Gary V. Vaughan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Chin wrote: | So this means func_infer_tag() is broken in branch-1-5 because it does | this: | func_infer_tag () { | if test -n "$available_tags" && test -z "$tagname"; then | CC_quoted= | ... | # Blanks at the start of

Re: func_infer_tag() broken on IRIX 6.5

2004-02-11 Thread Eric Sunshine
Gary V. Vaughan wrote: I've used return in a couple of places (twice with an integer return value), which I fear may break on old platforms. Otherwise I've assumed that all shell variables are in global scope, and that positional parameters are stacked and restored at function call boundaries to