On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 07:08:20PM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:27:12PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > >I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not > >sure quite what to do with it. I've already sent mail to the autoconf > >folks, but I'd like to understand what's going on. > > Simplest explanation is that autotools are broken by design. After my > recent experiences, I've come to the conclusion that they are designed > to impede the portability of software. > > >My question is, why doesn't the configure script just accept /bin/sh? > > Probably because it's not bash.
This is also the reason why I install bash if I had linux-bash in my path, because it will use linux-bash instead of sh and starts finding linux things which it shouldn't for native builds. The native bash is in path befor the linix version so it at least uses a native compiled shell. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
