-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [Please keep replies on-list, so that others may chime in. Also, please avoid top-posts to technical support lists.]
According to Bert Timmerman on 2/23/2009 1:13 PM: > Hi, Hello Bert, >> | @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ >> | +./script: line 551: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' >> | +./script: line 557: syntax error: unexpected end of file >> | ./m4sh.at:200: exit code was 2, expected 0 >> >> Looking at the generated script, I see that line 551 falls in: >> >> | echo=`$as_echo_n ' >> | \c'` >> >> So it seems like your shell has a bug in its handling of `` that contains >> a ''-quoted newline. We need to know more about this shell, to see >> whether this is something that autoconf needs to be aware of and avoid. > > > I'm having bash-3.1-9.fc5.1 installed. > > SHELL=/bin/bash > > Hope this helps. > Thanks for the followup; that's an older version of bash, but no one else has reported this bug with that version, so I'm wondering what else might be the problem. What does 'echo $BASH_VERSION' output (so we can determine the patch level)? Also, is /bin/sh a symlink to bash, or is it some other shell? Can you please also post the output of: /bin/sh -vx tests/testsuite.dir/051/script - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmlRTwACgkQ84KuGfSFAYDLngCfWIwGuAU0/FSbin6XxGJ2UXvN dg0AoJk7h+6tnmcAnGofgZ3ulQdukCLz =SADu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
