From: tolj AT uni-duesseldorf DOT de (Stipe Tolj) Subject: Re: b20: BUG sh configure makes a mess (win98) 6 Nov 1998 23:36:18 -0800 Message-ID: <36423B9C.479EA38A.cygnus.gnu-win32@uni-duesseldorf.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: creative1 AT bigfoot DOT com, GNU-Win32 > > I am trying to compile several programs and i arrived to the conclusion > > that configure > > doesn't work properly on b20. > > > > I ALWAYS get a mess, and the resulting config.h is full of #undef when > > it shouldn't. > > I have check several things and most of the 'if test' doesn't work as > > they should. > > the grep program should return 1 or 0 and sometimes it doesn't return > > anything on the configure, > > which make it think there is not such thing. > > > > After several assignation on the configure, it seems that it does not > > assign any more, things like... > > whatever = `echo blalbla` > > in a bucle, works for 20 times, and then after several times in the > > loop, it stop working and > > whatever gets = nothing. > > as I have reported, this seems to be a bug within the "sh.exe", since the > forking of the configure script is calling a own sh for every > > whatever = `echo blabla` > > after some (20 or 30) calls within the loop it gets boggus. > > Regards, > Stipe > > -- > Stipe Tolj > Cygwin Porting Project > Department of Economical Computer Science > University of Cologne, Germany > http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".