Autotools

[Colin Law]

On 4 August 2013 17:23, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> Actually, I'm seeing this on autoconf itself under some circumstances.
>  The details elude me so far, but it appears that if I start a fresh
> shell,
> $ /usr/bin/autoconf --version
> will hang, while
> $ /usr/bin/autoconf --version </dev/null
> will not.  This is repeatable, but sometimes after I've fooled around
> with things for a while it stops happening in that shell, so I presume
> some environment variable changes.

I wonder whether autoconf reads the config file even if --version is
used.  Do you see the same effect if you change the directory you are
running autoconf from?  If you also specify --verbose do you see
anything?

Which version are you using?

Colin