This makes it much easier to find a particular thing in config.log. The information may be lacking in other shells, resulting in harmless empty output. (This is why we don't use the proper ${FUNCNAME[*]} array syntax - other shells will choke on that.)
The extra output is only printed if configure is run with bash. The something), it is necessary to say bash ./configure to get the extra debug info in the log. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> --- configure | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 6f691df..21a2b15 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ do_compiler() { # is compiler binary to execute. local compiler="$1" shift + echo >>config.log " +funcs: ${FUNCNAME} +lines: ${BASH_LINENO} +files: ${BASH_SOURCE}" echo $compiler "$@" >> config.log $compiler "$@" >> config.log 2>&1 || return $? # Test passed. If this is an --enable-werror build, rerun -- 2.1.4