Re: Question on check-process / autoconf-2.6.3

2009-12-29 Thread Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza
Dear Eric, for the begin: you're right, I am not attempting to build 2.6.3 but 2.63 instead, this was just a typo. Thank you very much for your hint, so I called make check TESTSUITEFLAGS='-v 27', the output of this command does not lead me really further, hence I attach what is significant duri

Re: Redirecting to a stream number held in a variable

2009-12-29 Thread Eric Blake
>$as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENUM}: error: $1" >&$3 That is valid, if and only if $3 expands to an integer. > > Which shells, and what is the text of the error? > echo "foobar" >&$3 What is $3 during the time of your testing? In isolation, I can reproduce failures, but only when $3 is

Redirecting to a stream number held in a variable

2009-12-29 Thread MarkHobley
I have a function that is being generated by autoconf as follows: as_fn_error () { ... $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENUM}: error: $1" >&$3 ... } This basically expands to give: echo "foobar" >&$3 The echo command with the redirection causes a syntax error on some shells, althou