Possible egcs-1.1.2-pre2 configure problem on HP-UX 9.04

Kaveh R. Ghazi ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu
Wed Mar 31 23:46:00 GMT 1999


 > From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> 
 > 
 >   In message <9902289202.AA920257535@cc.pmsc.com>you write:
 >   > 
 >   > Configuring on HP-UX 9.04 gave a 'sh internal 2K buffer overflow' -
 >   > the build seems to be running and pre1 worked ok. 
 > This is a bug in the hpux shell.  It only effects building of the config.cache
 > file.
 > 
 > I believe if you set CONFIG_SHELL and/or SHELL in your environment will work
 > around this bug.
 > 
 > See the hpux entries at
 > 
 > http://egcs.cygnus.com/install/specific.html
 > 
 > jeff

	This is also fixed by generating configure with autoconf-2.12.1
or later.  We've been doing this in the mainline for a long time, I'm
surprised the 1.1.x branch didn't use it.  BTW its been enforced since
November via AC_PREREQ() so its pretty safe. 

		--Kaveh
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