I wrote:
> Running a configure generated from the current autoconf on HP-UX 10.20
> gives me an executable prefix '0'.
>
> This seems to be the result of:
>
> expr conftest : [^.]*\(\..*\)
>
> And I do get the same result from another set of expr's that I tried
> it with (including GNU expr (GNU sh-utils 2.0)).
I did fix it with the appended patch but I'm not clear on if this is
the right way.
/assar
Index: aclang.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/autoconf/aclang.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.103
diff -u -w -u -w -r1.103 aclang.m4
--- aclang.m4 2000/12/20 18:41:10 1.103
+++ aclang.m4 2000/12/26 21:49:10
@@ -670,6 +667,9 @@
case $ac_file in
*.$ac_ext | *.out | *.o | *.obj | *.xcoff | *.tds | *.d | *.pdb ) ;;
*) ac_cv_exeext=`expr "$ac_file" : ['[^.]*\(\..*\)']`
+ if test "$ac_cv_exeext" = "0"; then
+ ac_cv_exeext=
+ fi
break;;
esac
done],
@@ -695,6 +695,9 @@
case $ac_file in
*.$ac_ext | *.o | *.obj | *.xcoff | *.tds | *.d | *.pdb ) ;;
*) ac_cv_exeext=`expr "$ac_file" : ['[^.]*\(\..*\)']`
+ if test "$ac_cv_exeext" = "0"; then
+ ac_cv_exeext=
+ fi
break;;
esac
done],
