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Re: `configure' slightly broken in texinfo tree
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.
> What exactly is wrong?
The symptom is simple: upon typing `configure' (yes, even straight
`configure' without any options at all), you get this:
: Configuring for a i586-pc-linux-gnu host.
: Created "Makefile" in /usr/packages/egcs/egcs/snapshot/i586-pc-linux-gnu using "mt-frag"
: warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
: warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
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: warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
: warning: $(datadir)/texmf: Unrecognized variable construct `$('.
: ../../egcs/texinfo/configure: datadir: command not found
: Links are now set up to build a native compiler for i586-pc-linux-gnu
This has only been verified in a parallel build tree, because I don't
go in for polluting trees with configure info unless I absolutely
must. (In any case, parallel trees is the recommended way for egcs,
IIRC.)
I'm using bash-2.02.1(1)-release, with just-about-everything enabled.
It looks to me like the trivial two-character patch I submitted fixes
it, but I may well be wrong.
> A patch without a problem description is generally
> not going to be installed unless it is obviously correct.
This is entirely laudable; I had flu when I sent off the original
description, so I forgot. My error - I shouldn't do egcsery when I'm
ill :)
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