[Bug 1208215] [NEW] Test relating to solaris hangs my system

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Public bug reported:

Line 56 of the script contains an invocation of a command named "print".
This appears to be related to Solaris, and wants to use a builtin if
it's ksh.

The problem is that it's not a builtin on my system, and I have a Perl
script installed in /usr/local/bin/print that gets invoked and it hangs
forever with these arguments.  I've fixed my script, but this seems
quite clumsy on the part of autoconf.  By chance it works without my
script because it invokes something from package mime-support.

It seems to me that autoconf ought at least to know if it's running ksh,
and that perhaps the test before it is failing to filter for that.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: autoconf 2.68-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-49.75-generic-pae 3.2.46
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-49-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Aug  4 10:27:17 2013
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: autoconf
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: autoconf (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 precise

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Title:
  Test relating to solaris hangs my system

Status in “autoconf” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Line 56 of the script contains an invocation of a command named
  "print".  This appears to be related to Solaris, and wants to use a
  builtin if it's ksh.

  The problem is that it's not a builtin on my system, and I have a Perl
  script installed in /usr/local/bin/print that gets invoked and it
  hangs forever with these arguments.  I've fixed my script, but this
  seems quite clumsy on the part of autoconf.  By chance it works
  without my script because it invokes something from package mime-
  support.

  It seems to me that autoconf ought at least to know if it's running
  ksh, and that perhaps the test before it is failing to filter for
  that.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: autoconf 2.68-1ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-49.75-generic-pae 3.2.46
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-49-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Aug  4 10:27:17 2013
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120817.3)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   LC_COLLATE=C
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: autoconf
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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