Re: Removing configure flags?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

HiPhish <address@hidden> skribis:

> Thanks to both of you I can now at least get the configure script to run, but 
> it stops because it cannot find `cat`:
>
> starting phase `configure'
> building for Linux on localhost at Tue Sep 11 10:46:19 UTC 2018
> looking for /bin/sh./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
>  (nope)
> looking for bash./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
> ./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
> ./configure: line 89: expr: command not found

[...]

> From my understanding, `cat` is part of coreutils, which is already an 
> implicit input of the GNU build system. So the configure script should have 
> it, shouldn't it?

Indeed.  Could it be that ‘configure’ overrides PATH, setting it to,
say, /bin:/usr/bin?  (You mentioned ‘getconf PATH’ yesterday on IRC,
perhaps that’s related?)

HTH,
Ludo’.