Let's not let this thread hang ... * Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 04:52:08PM CEST: > On 06/19/2010 09:21 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Seems we can't rely on dot returning an error status; this is the only > > failure on AIX 5.1 with /bin/sh and current git plus one unrelated > > patch: > > > > + ./configure > > stderr: > > ./configure[1550]: syntax error at line 2 : `fi' unexpected > > stdout: > > configure: loading site script /tmp/tests/testsuite.dir/209/bad.site > > ../../autoconf/tests/base.at:419: exit code was 0, expected 1 > > Thanks for the report. I'm thinking that it might be best to just add > something like: > > AC_CHECK([. ./bad.site && exit 77], [ignore], [ignore], [ignore]) > > prior to the configure test, to skip this test on AIX; can you confirm > whether that would be sufficient?
no, it is not, and I haven't yet found a simple way to fix it, with admittedly only mediocre amount of testing however. Cheers, Ralf
