Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] auctex 11.85 configure hangs

[Ralf Angeli]

* Rodney Sparapani (2008-06-10) writes:

> Ralf Angeli wrote:
>> * Rodney Sparapani (2008-06-10) writes:
>>
>>> checking where automatically generated global style hooks go... 
>>> ${localstatedir}/auctex
>>>
>>> And it just hangs there.  I've also tried setting --localstatedir=/var
>>> and 11.84, but the results are the same.  Any ideas?  I'm using xemacs
>>> 21.5.28, Sun Studio 5.9, Blastwave, CONFIG_SHELL=/usr/xpg4/bin/sh, etc.
>>> Not sure what else would be relevant...
>>
>> Hm, there is not much in configure after the last message you showed
>> and the next one which is supposed to show up which would be
>> checking for tex... /usr/bin/tex
>> in my case.  What's the last thing in config.log?
>>
>>   
> ...
> configure:2681: checking where automatically generated global style hooks go
> configure:2691: result: ${localstatedir}/auctex

After this line and before the next echo statement in the configure
script there are some while loops.  Perhaps those are a problem.  Here
is one of them:

 while :;do case "$tmpdir" in *\$*) __ac_tmp__='s/[\`"-"]/\\&/g'
eval "tmpdir=`sed ${__ac_tmp__} <<EOF
$tmpdir
EOF
`";; *) break ;; esac; done

Do you perhaps know if such a construct is supported by your shell?
(Frankly I am not an expert here.)  Also, is sed installed?

-- 
Ralf