Re: ./configure problems

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 10:43:47PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:29:47 -0700, Stremler wrote:
> > I recently downloaded the gnu smalltalk 2.1.7 tarball, and got some
> > interesting complaints when I ran ./configure:
> > % ./configure
> > Missing }.
> > Missing }.
> > Found no shell that has working shell functions.
> > Please tell address@hidden about your system.
>
> Perhaps this configure script was generated from a CVS version of Autoconf
> in which the shell selection and "missing shell function" reporting were
> rather buggy. Those problems have been fixed in CVS. Re-generating the script
> with Autoconf 2.59 or the present-day CVS version should probably resolve
> the problem.

It doesn't.  CVS Autoconf selects tcsh as CONFIG_SHELL if
SHELL=/bin/tcsh.

http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2004-04/msg00072.html