Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.53] testsuite.log: 1 failures

[Paul Eggert]

> From: William F Hammond <address@hidden>
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1
> Date: 15 Jul 2002 19:23:21 -0400
> 
> Is it safe to use this build of autoconf?

Not if you use basename.

> How might it be repaired?

You could install a version of "basename" that works correctly on your
host, e.g. "basename //1/" should output "1".  Or you could try using
Autoconf 2.53a, which should work around the basename bug on your
host.  You can get it from:
<http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/alpha.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.53a.tar.gz>

(The canonical FTP site alpha.gnu.org is down right now.)