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Re: Autoconf from git doesn't compile


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Autoconf from git doesn't compile
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:50:34 +0100

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> I don't observe the problem on my Debian stable platform.
>
> Alexander Kahl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> make exists and was already found :
>
> Where is it, exactly?
>
>> 4721  stat64("\'/autoconf-build/autoconf/tests/make", 0xbfeec768) = -1 
>> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> That "'" is certainly a bug.  I installed this patch, not that it will
> fix your problem.
>
> 2007-11-09  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * GNUmakefile (PATH): Remove stray apostrophes; they become
>       part of PATH, which isn't wanted here.
>
> diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
> index 79ad492..652d015 100644
> --- a/GNUmakefile
> +++ b/GNUmakefile
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ifeq ($(have-Makefile),yes)
>  export TAR_OPTIONS = --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner
>
>  # Build with our own versions of these tools, when possible.
> -export PATH = '$(shell echo "`pwd`/tests:$$PATH")'
> +export PATH = $(shell echo "`pwd`/tests:$$PATH")
>
>  include Makefile

Hi Paul,

I've just applied and pushed your patch, since the bug it
fixed was probably behind a buildbot failure:

  http://buildbot.proulx.com:9003/

Thanks to Bob Proulx for setting it up!




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