>>>>> "davida" == David Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
davida> i've struck a problem when attempting to install a package on davida> an old NeXTStep machine. the package in question has a davida> configure file (generated by autoconf-2.53) which ends up davida> looping endlessly. davida> the problem appears to be around the LINENO alternative code: davida> it runs the two sed commands ok (if slowly :-) and then davida> sources the new file ($as_me.lineno). it then starts davida> executing from the top again, until hitting the same point, davida> when it loops again. it never appears to break out of this davida> loop. davida> has anyone seen this before? any suggestions? Could you try running make check on 2.53b? TIA! ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/autoconf-2.53b.tar.gz (1006K autoconf-2.53b.tar.gz) ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/autoconf-2.53b.tar.bz2 (763K autoconf-2.53b.tar.bz2)
