Package: autoconf Version: 2.68-1 Severity: normal In trying to bootstrap a minimal environment, I ended up trying to run configure using just busybox. This almost worked, except that configure uses diff several times. configure just uses diff for its exit code, to check for identical files. The version of busybox-static in Debian doesn't provide diff, but does provide cmp. Please consider trying cmp if available, and in any case verifying the existence of diff and/or cmp before trying to call them.
This issue manifested as configure complaining that it could not find a usable grep, due to the test for grep using diff. Thanks, Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.38+ (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages autoconf depends on: ii debianutils 3.4.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii m4 1.4.16-1 a macro processing language ii perl 5.10.1-20 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages autoconf recommends: ii automake [automaken] 1:1.11.1-1 A tool for generating GNU Standard ii automake1.9 [automaken] 1.9.6+nogfdl-3.1 A tool for generating GNU Standard Versions of packages autoconf suggests: ii autoconf-archive 20090426-1 The Autoconf Macro Archive pn autoconf-doc <none> (no description available) pn autoconf2.13 <none> (no description available) ii gettext 0.18.1.1-3 GNU Internationalization utilities pn gnu-standards <none> (no description available) ii libtool 2.4-2 Generic library support script -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
