Re: CONFIG_SHELL and `./config.status --recheck'

2005-11-09 Thread Paul Eggert
That patch looks good to me, except: > + CONFIG_SHELL=$SHELL exec $SHELL $[0] $ac_configure_args > \$ac_configure_extra_args --no-create --no-recursion Many shells treat "A=B exec COMMAND" differently; they ignore the assignment. For example, ksh M-11/16/88i, or Solaris 10 /bin/sh. I suspect t

Re: CONFIG_SHELL and `./config.status --recheck'

2005-11-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Paul, * Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:11:26AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One possibility would be to restart once with /bin/sh, or, if part of > > the environment, with CONFIG_SHELL, or, after parsing the command line, > > with CONFIG_SHELL, if that

Re: CONFIG_SHELL and `./config.status --recheck'

2005-11-06 Thread Paul Eggert
Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > One possibility would be to restart once with /bin/sh, or, if part of > the environment, with CONFIG_SHELL, or, after parsing the command line, > with CONFIG_SHELL, if that is given there. All of this is very slow > (read: dog-slow), and I'd really li

CONFIG_SHELL and `./config.status --recheck'

2005-11-06 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
The Libtool issue described here may need cooperation from Autoconf. In libtool.m4's _LT_PROG_ECHO_BACKSLASH, we search for a good combination of an `echo' program (that does not interpret backslashes) and a $SHELL that also qualifies for _AS_DETECT_BETTER_SHELL. This detection has one, or rather