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Re: Weird problems on AIX 4.3.3.0 system
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Will Andrews |
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Re: Weird problems on AIX 4.3.3.0 system |
Date: |
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 13:15:58 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.3.17i |
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 10:17:49AM -0700, Paul Eggert (address@hidden) wrote:
> Perhaps you're running 'configure' as root but the shell-script as
> non-root? That might explain matters if the source is mounted via NFS
> without root-over-the-wire privileges.
Nope. I tested configure on /tmp (local disk). It's not a NFS
problem, it would seem. Both were tested non-root.
> It does seem to me that 'configure' should exit if this error is
> found, as it's a serious one. Here's a proposed (and untested) patch.
Yes, it should. The thing is, configure exits with a code 1, but
everything compiles on AIX fine... :-)
> 2001-07-31 Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
>
> * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_INIT_HELP, _AC_OUTPUT_COMMANDS):
> Report an error and fail if pwd fails.
> * m4/init.m4 (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Likewise.
> * m4/missing.m4 (AM_MISSING_HAS_RUN, AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND): Likewise.
>
> The above patch assumes that we are operating on ordinary
> hosts where 'x=`pwd` || echo failure' works as expected.
> Buggy hosts, where x=`pwd` always succeeds, are no worse off
> than before.
Thanks, I'll try it out. Should have an answer for you by the
end of the day...
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wca