Re: Migrating to autoconf 2.52g

[John Poltorak]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 01:32:34PM +0100, Tim Van Holder wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-02-04 at 12:28, John Poltorak wrote:

> > When running autoupdate I get:-
> > 
> > + autoupdate
> > autom4te.: no such file or directory: /dev/null
> > autoupdate.: cannot close autom4te ...
> 
> I would guess that whatever OS/2 environment you use (EMX I guess) does
> not provide emulation for /dev/null (or at least bash and/or perl
> don't).  Perhaps autoconf needs to detect this:
> 
> DEVNULL=/dev/null
> test -f /dev/null || { test -f NUL && DEVNULL=NUL }
> 
> or something similar.


Can you suggest what I could patch? I'd really like to see if autoupdate 
can provide what I want.


-- 
John