Hi Sam,
* Sam Sirlin wrote on Wed, May 31, 2006 at 01:11:49AM CEST:
> From: Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Is your script home-grown or does it have some wider usage? What does
> it output upon
> dirname -- /
>
> It's old code from SVr2, so it may be lurking around on old systems. I
> probably grabbed it someday before sun had added it in (sun4?).
>
> kalessin{sam} > old_dirname -- /
> .
>
> sun solaris 9 has apparently a shell script v 1.7 (SVr4) that
> behaves more like gnu:
> I've tried this and it works with the new configure.
Good, thanks for checking. I have applied the following patch to
Autoconf.
Cheers,
Ralf
* lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 (_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE): Check whether
`dirname -- /' returns `/', for SunOS dirname scripts that escaped.
Report by Sam Sirlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Index: lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.188
diff -u -r1.188 m4sh.m4
--- lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 26 May 2006 22:29:50 -0000 1.188
+++ lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 30 May 2006 23:23:59 -0000
@@ -755,7 +755,7 @@
# _AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE
# --------------------
m4_defun([_AS_DIRNAME_PREPARE],
-[if (dirname -- /) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+[if (as_dir=`dirname -- /` && test "$as_dir" = /) >/dev/null 2>&1; then
as_dirname=dirname
else
as_dirname=false
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