Re: snapshot in preparation for 1.4.13

[Eric Blake]

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According to Elbert_Gmail on 12/25/2008 1:21 AM:
>>>> I try again with Os2 and the ./configure failed here:
>>>> checking whether an open file can be renamed... return: Illegal
>>>> number: -/
> 
> Thanks for the report.  However, we need more information; can you also
> attach the config.log?
> 
> I attach the config.log

[adding bug-autoconf, because of the shell bug shown here]

| configure:23375: checking whether an open file can be renamed
| configure:23397: gcc -std=gnu99 -o conftest.exe -D__EMX__ -DOS2
- -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__ -O3 -mtune=pentium3  -Zexe -Zomf -Zmap -Zargs-wild
- -Zbin-files -D__ST_MT_ERRNO__ -s conftest.c  >&5
| configure:23397: $? = 0
| configure:23397: ./conftest.exe
| configure:23397: $? = -/
| configure: program exited with status -/

Wow.  Your shell is buggy.  $? is never supposed to hold a non-numeric
value.  Your config.log shows that you loaded a config.site, where you
pre-define SHELL=sh and ac_cv_path__PATH_SH='/moztools/ash.exe, so maybe
it just means you have a broken ash installed?  Does OS/2 even come with a
default pre-built bourne-style shell, or is ash something you built
yourself?  Can you upgrade to a better shell?

At any rate, your platform seems more and more like a lost cause.  The
fact that configure doesn't even complete means that autoconf-generated
scripts are not portable to your platform; we would have to fix that
first, but we can't even write an autoconf patch to work around corruption
in $? unless you can find a workaround.  Meanwhile, since you obviously
can't rename an in-use file, you can get past this check by calling
'./configure M4_cv_func_rename_open_file_works=no'.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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