On Tue, 23 May 2006, Paul Eggert wrote: > I installed this patch, which works around this particular problem by > not using shell expansion at all in the here-documents used to create > defines.sed. However, other instances of this problem lurk in > AC_LANG_SOURCE(C), _AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_DEFINE_Q, AC_LANG_CONFTEST, > _AC_OUTPUT_FILES_PREPARE, _AC_OUTPUT_FILE, and > _AC_OUTPUT_CONFIG_STATUS, with the last 3 being the most worrisome. > > Perhaps Tim could check whether this patch fixes his problem? > If not, other patches are probably also needed.
I built autoconf from CVS pulled May 24 15:30 US/Pacific, ran autoconf in the coreutils source tree, ran configure on my 7.1.1 box. This time it worked fine. Good work. -- Tim Rice Multitalents (707) 887-1469 [EMAIL PROTECTED]