Hi, Pavel. I played with 'configure' from the Dec 5, 2001 snapshot. Here's a few things I ran across. The first two look like they would also apply to other PC-type operating systems as well as OS/2:
1) line 16691: # Create a (secure) tmp directory for tmp files. : ${TMPDIR=/tmp} My $TMP environment variable = N:\temp. Configure seems to create some temporary files in N:\temp and others in \tmp. Havoc results. I didn't try to figure out where configure does what, but changing it to this seems to fix the problem: # Create a (secure) tmp directory for tmp files. if [ -n "$TMP" ] ; then TMPDIR=$TMP else TMPDIR=/tmp fi 2) Configure checks for a working 'ln -s'; if not found it sets $as_ln_s='cp -p'. But in a couple of places 'ln' is hard-coded: lines 14550 and 15729: case "$srcdir" in /*) ln -sf $srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h slang/slang.h;; *) ln -sf ../$srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h slang/slang.h;; esac My workaround was to change it to: case "$srcdir" in /*) ${as_ln_s}f $srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h slang/slang.h;; *) ${as_ln_s}f ../$srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h slang/slang.h;; esac Aesthetically inelegant, since it depends on the fact that 'ln' and 'cp' both use a -f switch for the same purpose, but those are the only choices configure offers anyway. 3) I'm not sure what to make of this one. At the same place, line 15729, case "$srcdir" in /*) ${as_ln_s}f $srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h slang/slang.h;; *) ${as_ln_s}f ../$srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h slang/slang.h;; esac $srcdir='.', and I get an error from cp: ".././slang/slang-mc.h no such file or directory". The correct filespec is $srcdir/slang/slang-mc.h. I don't see how it could be OS/2-related, but if the 'case' logic were broken, you would know it. So I copied the file by hand. Not serious, but puzzling. 4) line 9845: WARNING: could not determine how to read list of mounted fs Hm, that sounds serious. Don't know what it means yet. 5) line 17362: for file in `sed -n -e ' /^DEP_FILES = .*\\\\$/ { s/^DEP_FILES = // :loop s/\\\\$// p n /\\\\$/ b loop p } /^DEP_FILES = / s/^DEP_FILES = //p' < "$mf" | \ sed -e 's/\$(DEPDIR)/'"$DEPDIR"'/g' -e 's/\$U/'"$U"'/g'`; do For some reason, I sometimes get a tab character in $file. As I said earlier, the only language I know is DOS Basic, and that block of code is a dark and sinister mystery to me. I =think= this is probably something broken in OS/2's 'sed', but I mention it because I am frequently wrong. My workaround is to insert a sed command to strip any tabs. _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc