Package: autoconf Version: 2.59.cvs.2006.05.13-1 Severity: normal The most recent version of autoconf in the archive appears to break the use of "-o /dev/null"; it tries to open /dev/null.tmp which of course fails when run as a normal user. I noticed this when trying to build automake, as automake's configure script uses this feature of autoconf. Downgrading to 2.59a-9 makes it work again.
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