Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD

2009-11-26 Thread Harald van Dijk
Hi, The configure script of autoconf 2.64/2.65/HEAD fails to detect a suitable m4 on my system. It aborts with autoconf-2.65 0 $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/

Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD

2009-11-26 Thread Harald van Dijk
Hi, The configure script of autoconf 2.64/2.65/HEAD fails to detect a suitable m4 on my system. It aborts with autoconf-2.65 0 $ ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/

Re: permissions on autom4te.cache/ ?

2009-11-26 Thread Olly Betts
On 2009-11-24, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > -mkdir "$cache", 0755 > +mkdir "$cache" The umask argument to mkdir is required by older versions of Perl. I think it became optional in 5.6. I'm not sure if automake has a minimum Perl version it aims to support (it doesn't seem to declare on in

Re: fix libtool test

2009-11-26 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 11/26/2009 01:07 PM, Eric Blake wrote: AT_CHECK([cat `cat stdout`<<_EOF>configure.in ... EOF ]) That would be cat `cat stdout` - <<_EOF > configure.in no? Paolo

Re: fix libtool test

2009-11-26 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [moving to autoconf-patches, replies can drop bug-autoconf] According to Stepan Kasal on 11/25/2009 6:05 PM: > Hello, > I noticed that the libtool test is always skipped (foreign.at, line > 58), as libtoolize does not install config.guess. I have n