Re: `configure' slightly broken in texinfo tree

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <13850.40588.966051.982044@loki.wkstn.nix>you write:
  > Jeffrey A Law writes:
  > > 
  > >   > I'm sure everyone knows this already, but in 1.1b-release and in the
  > >   > latest CVS sources as of about 2000 GMT, `configure' in the texinfo
  > >   > tree is somewhat broken.
  > > Not exactly.  You're the first to report this problem.
  > 
  > I think it must be my fault, somehow; it's so damned obvious I'd have
  > thought it would have been fixed ages ago if everyone got it.
Similarly.

  > > What exactly is wrong?
  > 
  > The symptom is simple: upon typing `configure' (yes, even straight
  > `configure' without any options at all), you get this:
I just installed bash-2.02 and configured (on my i586-pc-linux-gnu laptop) and
it configured just fine.

Something more subtle is going on.  I'd like to know what it is before we
start hacking up texinfo (which we generally want to avoid doing, the closer
it is to the standard distributions, the better).

jeff