configure: Backticks don't work in strings. Use POSIX::uname(). The strings that use backticks to get `uname -r` don't work as expected. Let's use POSIX::uname() directly and let perl do the work.
Index: configure =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/cluster/cluster/configure,v retrieving revision 1.34 diff -u -u -r1.34 configure --- configure 24 Sep 2007 14:43:13 -0000 1.34 +++ configure 27 Sep 2007 22:28:30 -0000 @@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ ############################################################################### use Getopt::Long; +use POSIX qw(uname); print "\nConfiguring Makefiles for your system...\n"; @@ -228,22 +229,25 @@ if (!$prefix) { $prefix="/usr"; } + +my @un = POSIX::uname(); if (!$kernel_build) { - if (-d "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build") { - $kernel_build="/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build"; + printf("dir: \"%s\" \"%d\"\n", "/lib/modules/$un[2]/build", -d "/lib/modules/$un[2]/build"); + if (-d "/lib/modules/$un[2]/build") { + $kernel_build="/lib/modules/$un[2]/build"; } else { $kernel_build="/usr/src/linux"; } } if (!$kernel_src) { - if (-d "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source") { - $kernel_src="/lib/modules/`uname -r`/source"; + if (-d "/lib/modules/$un[2]/source") { + $kernel_src="/lib/modules/$un[2]/source"; } else { $kernel_src=$kernel_build; } } if (!$module_dir) { - $module_dir="/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel"; + $module_dir="/lib/modules/$un[2]/kernel"; } if (!$gfskincdir) { $gfskincdir="${pwd}/gfs-kernel/src/gfs"; -- Viro's Razor: Any race condition, no matter how unlikely, will occur just often enough to bite you. Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (650) 506-8127