[Gnu-arch-users] Solution to running configure on SFU (was: Problems installing t la on FreeBSD)

[Parker, Ron]

> From: Tom Lord [mailto:address@hidden

> Can you double check whether the version of patch 
> you are trying to configure with does or does not 
> support that option?

Turns out that patch was not the actual problem in this case.  Microsoft
ships a very strange which(1) with SFU.  It puts out Windows-style paths,
while most of the rest of SFU uses Unix-style paths and there is some
end-of-line weirdness going on as well.

The following patch to package-framework gets past this issue.  I am still
looking at post-config build issues.

--- tla-1.2.orig/src/build-tools/auto-conf-lib/gnu-patch-test   Mon Feb  9
12:08:25 2004
+++ tla-1.2/src/build-tools/auto-conf-lib/gnu-patch-test        Thu Apr  1
12:41:15 2004
@@ -116,7 +116,12 @@


 FAIL=""
-if [ -x "`which "$PATCHPROG"  2>/dev/null`" ] ; then
+if [ "`uname`" = Interix ] ; then
+    PATCHPATH=`winpath2unix "\`which \"$PATCHPROG\" 2>/dev/null\`"|tr -d
'\\r'`
+else
+    PATCHPATH="`which "$PATCHPROG"  2>/dev/null`"
+fi
+if [ -x "$PATCHPATH" ] ; then

     testresults "$ORIG_A" "$PATCHED_A" "$EXPECTED_A" "$ORIG_PRISTINE_A"
"$PATCH_A"
     testresults "$ORIG_B" "$PATCHED_B" "$EXPECTED_B" "$ORIG_PRISTINE_B"
"$PATCH_B"