Re: Problems after upgrading gnu tools

["Gary V. Vaughan" <gary at gnu dot org>]

Jay West wrote:
> 2) I was always getting this other problem, even before upgrading. It's a
> minor annoyance but was wondering if someone could tell me what was
> happening or if it was a bug. Several times during a configure, configure is
> looking for the maximum length of command line arguments. On all the times
> it tests except one, it gets a numeric sensible result... but every time on
> ONE of the tests, I get the following:
>
> checking whether f77 accepts -g... yes
> checking the maximum length of command line arguments... expr: syntax error
> checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
>
> Any thoughts on why this happens just once, and the other times this test is
> performed (during the same configure session) it works?

It was a bug, fixed in autoconf CVS by the patch in:
  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-04/msg00028.html

Cheers,
	Gary.
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