On Tue, 22 May 2001, Charles Randall wrote:
> While trying to build a fresh copy of Apache 2.0 from Apache's anonymous CVS
> repository on FreeBSD 4.2-R (after building and installing GNU m4, libtool,
> and autoconf), I ran into the following error,
You might want to use autoconf-2.13 for now; autoconf-2.50
incorporates some drastic changes and might need some
improvements before becoming as portable as 2.13 is right
now.
> 1) Is FreeBSD 4.2-R's sh implementation conformant? At first glance, it
> doesn't appear that the Single Unix Spec V2 covers this detail but I'm sure
> that I could have missed it.
FreeBSD's implementation is aligned with IEEE 1003.1.
> 2) Is configure emitting conformant sh code for this example?
No. It is caused by acgeneral.m4, around line 4420:
case $ac_dest in
AC_LIST_COMMANDS_COMMANDS()dnl
esac
> 3) Is there a workaround?
Yes (see above).
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