Re: autoconf building useless configure script on Mac OS X

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Chris,

* Chris Inacio wrote on Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 04:36:29PM CEST:
> 
> We use autoconf for our software on multiple hosts, although in
> general, we tend to develop on Mac OS X.  I have two Mac OS X machines
> which I can the autoconf packages (autoconf, automake, and libtool,)
> from MacPorts.  I have two Mac OS X machines, each running the latest
> 10.4.10.  The problem is that on one of the machines, for the exact
> same software package, autoconf builds a useless configure script,
> while on the other machine it works fine.

Do the m4 versions on the machines differ?  Can you post a link to the
package, or to the two configure scripts and the configure.ac file?
Is the broken configure script empty?  If not, run it like
  sh -x configure

and post the output (preferably packed with bzip2 or gzip).

Thanks,
Ralf