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Subject: Re: Problems with depcomp from fileutils 4.0x & bash 2.03
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| From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
| Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 11:29:03 -0400
| 
| > The same problem exists with Sh-utils. And I'm sure it's the same with
| > the textutils pretest, too. And possibly other packages...? It would
| > be nice if we had some permanent fix for this. Is it possible, Mark?
| 
| If there's going to be a permanent fix, it will have to be to Bash 2.04.
| Could you try building with it? If the problem persists, point me to the 
| package and where the problem is (the file, place in the file, etc.).

I upgraded to 2.04 beta and got another problem.

First, the build worked perfectly on Windows. The problem in 2.03 was
absent in 2.04.

Secondly, the configure script failed in 2.04. It generated
config.status incorrectly. I don't have the exact error, but it looked
like this:

config.status: Line 27: -recheck | --recheck | --rechec ..... ) not found

But the same package compiled successfully under 2.03. Obviously,
the config.status is not being generated correctly for some
reason. Looking at config.status, I saw a line like this:

   -recheck | --recheck | .....

and I have no idea of how it appeared there. I tried many things to
fix it, in particular, tried building it with several changes to
djgpp/config.sed but nothing worked.

The problem is one of the two:

1> A bug in 2.04 beta.
2> There's something wrong in the way the configure script is being
   edited.
3> Problems due to lack of support for LFN (unlikely - I don't get any
   errors)

Could someone please check this up?

The package is on v2gnu/alphas/shl20js.zip.

Thanks,
Prash