Re: Autoconf 2.49d test: Command not found

[John Poltorak]

On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 10:56:26AM -0500, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% John Poltorak <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   jp> It's a version of GNU Make ported to OS/2.
> 
> This is a bug in that version of GNU make, or in the port to OS/2 (not
> sure).  If you have the source code, you want to do this:
> 
> Edit the file job.c.
> 
> Find the function construct_command_argv_internal().
> 
> In that function you'll see a bunch of different definitions of the
> static char string sh_chars...  I'm not familiar with your port so I
> can't say exactly how it will look, but you need to find the variable
> sh_chars (or it might be sh_chars_sh on OS/2) that is compiled for your
> version of GNU make.
> 
> Add the character ``:'' to that string.  Rebuild and see if that works.

Thanks for being so specific. This is what it contains:-

#ifdef __EMX__
  static char sh_chars[] = "&|<>^()%`";
  int is_cmd = 1;
#else

Hopefully, a rebuild will cure my problem...
 
> Newer versions of GNU make actually are smart enough to handle ":" by
> itself specially and not actually do anything at all, so this isn't
> necessary.
> 
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-- 
John