Re: Autoconf from git doesn't compile

[Paul Eggert]

I don't observe the problem on my Debian stable platform.

Alexander Kahl <address@hidden> writes:

> make exists and was already found :

Where is it, exactly?

> 4721  stat64("\'/autoconf-build/autoconf/tests/make", 0xbfeec768) = -1 ENOENT 
> (No such file or directory)

That "'" is certainly a bug.  I installed this patch, not that it will
fix your problem.

2007-11-09  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * GNUmakefile (PATH): Remove stray apostrophes; they become
        part of PATH, which isn't wanted here.

diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
index 79ad492..652d015 100644
--- a/GNUmakefile
+++ b/GNUmakefile
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ ifeq ($(have-Makefile),yes)
 export TAR_OPTIONS = --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner

 # Build with our own versions of these tools, when possible.
-export PATH = '$(shell echo "`pwd`/tests:$$PATH")'
+export PATH = $(shell echo "`pwd`/tests:$$PATH")

 include Makefile