Hi! >>>>> "ch" == ch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Description: ch> The following output occures when using ASH as /bin/sh. ch> Your script seems to rely on non-POSIX features from bash ch> and therefore should be called with #!/bin/bash. This works. ch> -=(~/debian/mysql/ODBC/myodbc2.50.37-2.50.37)$ ./configure ch> creating cache ./config.cache ch> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c ch> checking whether build environment is sane... configure: error: ls -t appears to fail. Make sure there is not a broken ch> alias in your environment ch> configure: error: newly created file is older than distributed files! ch> Check your system clock >> How-To-Repeat: ch> use the smaller (but fully POSIX compliant) /bin/ash as /bin/sh >> Fix: ch> start the configure script with #!/bin/bash The test that fails is: if (set X `ls -t $srcdir/configure conftestfile`; test "$2" = conftestfile) then We know that this works for a lot of 'sh' on a lot of different systems and this is a standard configure thing I am more inclined to think this is a bug in ASH than in configure. Can you provide us with some more details about this or even better, prove that configure is not following POSIX here? Regards, Monty --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
