autoreconf hangs

2002-09-11 Thread Vance Shipley
I'm not able to get autoreconf to work at all, it just hangs: bash-2.03$ autoreconf --install --verbose --debug autoreconf: running: autoconf --version | sed 1q >&2 autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.53 autoreconf: running: autoheader --version | sed 1q >&2 autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.53 autoreconf: ru

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:35:19PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > What does autoreconf -v say? bash-2.03$ autoreconf -v autoreconf: working in `.'

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
Akim, I should have mentioned that I am running the sunfreeware package. I have not had any problems with their packages in the past but who knows? I will try to build the autoconf-2.53c.tar.gz version. -Vance On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 03:41:54PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > Well, ho

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
Akim, Yes, that certainly did something! Here's the end of the trace: 396: if ( $debug ) { 406: my $goon = 1; 407: while ( $goon && @ARGV > 0 ) { 589: if ( @ret && $order == $PERMUTE ) { 596: return ($error == 0); 291:foreach (grep { /^-./ } @ARGV) 292

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
Akim, That test seems to pass: bash-2.03$ perl -e 'chdir(".")' bash-2.03$ -Vance On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:12:28PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > It looks like chdir ('.') never ends? > > Give a try to: > > perl -e 'chdir(".")' > > it should exit (with success).

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
Akim, Ok, that hangs it: bash-2.03$ perl -e "use Cwd 'chdir'; chdir('.')" Nothing after that. -Vance On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 06:45:15PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote: > > | Akim, > | That test seems to pass: > | > | bash-2.03$ perl -e 'chdir(".")' > | bash-2.03$ > > So what about th

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
Akim, bash-2.03$ perl -e 'print ($ENV{"PWD"} =~ m|(/[^/]+(/[^/]+/[^/]+))(.*)|s);'\ > -e 'print ", ", $ENV{"PWD"}, ", $1, $2\n"' /export/home/vances/home/vances/netaccess, /export/home/vances/netaccess, /export/home/vances, /home/vances bash-2.03$ On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:04:35PM +0200,

Re: autoreconf hangs

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
bash-2.03$ perl -e 'print join (", ", stat ("/export/home/vances")), "\n"' 35651591, 7808, 16877, 6, 101, 101, 0, 512, 1031850371, 1031836178, 1031836178, 8192, 2 bash-2.03$ perl -e 'print join (", ", stat ("/home/vances")), "\n"' ... and here it hangs On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 07:25:34PM +0200, A

AC_PATH_PROG doesn't search additional paths

2002-09-12 Thread Vance Shipley
Am I missing something here? I can't get AC_PROG_PATH to work the way it is documented. I am using the example from the documentation: AC_PATH_PROG(INETD, inetd, /usr/libexec/inetd, $PATH:/usr/libexec:/usr/sbin:/usr/etc:etc) The path to search for the program should be my P