Re: Suspected bug with Autoconf built configures and SunOS 4.1.3_U1

[Lars Hecking]

> > /local/src/bison-1.35%./configure --help
> > ./configure: /tmp/sh286550: No such file or directory
> 
> It could be a problem with your locally installed shells.  Can you
> please send the output of the command "/bin/sh -x configure --help"
> while executing in your Bison directory?
 
 Also check that /tmp exists, has free space, and is writable by everyone
 (permissions 1777, owned by root.staff).

> > while using SunOS is certainly a recidivist practice, I know I'm not
> > the only one out here who is going to run into this problem if it's
> > autoconf related and is slowly seeping into multiple projects.
> 
> We still try to support SunOS 4.x, but I don't know of any Autoconf
> developers who still have access to SunOS 4.x boxes (my company
> retired our last one a couple of years ago) so we have to rely on user
> bug reports to keep us honest.

 It does work under SunOS 4.1.x.