Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached, which isn't the
same as what you suggested, but which should fix the problem.From 31f673434ee402258b45e958c88acc8725d82b1a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 16:54:11 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Port to GNU make 4.4
* cfg.mk (PATH): Assign eagerly, and simplify shell use, avoiding
use of the shell entirely if PWD is set, as it should be.
Problem reported by Sergei Trofimovich in:
https://lists.gnu.org/r/autoconf-patches/2022-09/msg00007.html
---
cfg.mk | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index 7e515130..82e896ed 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
# This file is '-include'd into GNUmakefile.
# Build with our own versions of these tools, when possible.
-export PATH = $(shell echo "`pwd`/tests:$$PATH")
+export PATH := $(or $(PWD),$(shell pwd))/tests:$(PATH)
# Remove the autoreconf-provided INSTALL, so that we regenerate it.
_autoreconf = autoreconf -i -v && rm -f INSTALL
--
2.37.2
