Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.53] testsuite.log: 126 failures

[Akim Demaille]

| >         cd testsuite.dir/003
| >         PATH=../..:$PATH autoconf -d -v -f -t 'TRACE1:
| >         Hello world!'
| 
| |autoconf: invalid number of arguments.
| |Try `autoconf --help' for more information.
| 
| QED, I guess.  My login shell is bash, and it works fine with
| newlines in commands, as far as I can tell.  The autoconf script
| runs /bin/sh (zsh).  If I change the load card in autoconf to run
| bash, I get:
| 
| |autoconf: running autom4te --include /Users/ab/Desktop/autoconf-2.53/lib -d 
-v -f --language=autoconf --output=- --trace=TRACE1: Hello world! configure.ac
| |/Users/ab/Desktop/autoconf-2.53/bin/autoconf: command not found: autom4te 
[198]
| 
| which is the "right" answer, right?

No, it's not right, but it's much better.

| Looks like Apple's zsh is defective to me. 

I wouldn't say that.  Is use Zsh everyday, with much pleasure.
Something else is causing us big troubles, and I'd like to find
exactly what.

| I'll replace it with
| bash and try again.  Sound good?

Nope, because then I know it will work.  I'm interested in *fixing*
your problems, not avoiding them.

Please, replace your /bin/sh by `/bin/sh -x' in the first line of both
tests/autoconf and bin/autoconf, and then run the same commands as
above:

| >         cd testsuite.dir/003
| >         PATH=../..:$PATH autoconf -d -v -f -t 'TRACE1:
| >         Hello world!'

Thanks!