Hi Paul, Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : "Lars J. Aas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > Is it possible that this is a local problem for the given MKS user I : > am working with and that he may have a somewhat faulty MKS : > installation or something? : : Possibly. It'd be nice if we could have another MKS user report what : happens. Or perhaps you or your user can consult the MKS bug database : (I can't; it's private).
OK, I'll see what I can do in this regard. I don't have access to their bug database either. : > When porting our autoconf/automake/libtool setup for Coin : > (www.coin3d.org) to work on MKS, I found that I had to apply the : > following patch to Autoconf 2.57 to get the generated config.status : > script to behave: : : Hmm, that looks pretty ad-hoc. No doubt about that :) : Why did you need to change just these : case statements, and not all the case statements in Autoconf and : Libtool? What were the symptoms of the failure? The symptoms were that the case didn't trigger any of the cases so the switch-var just fell through and no code was executed. For the argument parsing loop, this happens to very specific arguments. We first thought the case dropped arguments with /-characters in them, but I now believe it is something in the setup-code in the previous iteration of that loop that causes the case to not trigger unless the shell state is changed by running the dummy true-command. Anyways, while debugging the loop, adding echo of the variable being parsed caused the bug to disappear, so that's how we ended up with the current patch. : Do you have a small shell script that illustrates the problem? No. I was going to check with you guys if it was a known problem first before digging deeper into the matter. : Unless we understand the bug I'm a little leery of trying to insert : "true"s seemingly at random. I totally agree. The bug must be figured out to make a proper fix. It's a hassle to debug from remote though :( and I probably won't get around to look into this further for another two weeks. Lars J -- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away. -- PKD _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool