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Re: Automake 1.8.3 doesn't build?
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
This suggests that shell running this code does not split
$list and $subdir get the full list. Zsh would do that.
Could you compare the output of
grep 'SHELL =' Makefile
on the working and non-working tarballs?
CVS Autoconf has a new SHELL selection code. That could explain it.
The early shell selection changes in CVS made by Paolo would prefer zsh
over other shells if present (and if zsh seemed to offer what Autoconf
wanted). However, present day CVS Autoconf (following the lengthy
discussion and series of patches by Paolo, Paul, and myself) has been
changed so that it will no longer choose zsh. If you generated the
Automake configure script at the time when CVS Autoconf prefered zsh,
then that could explain things.
-- ES