Autotools [SOLVED]

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2013 at 10:26:04AM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> The results when it works are
> kevin at treat:~$ autoconf --version </dev/null
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.68
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
> <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.
> 
> 
> I've done a bit of investigation, and found the culprit on line 56,
> where a "print" command is executed.  For me, this invokes a Perl
> script I have in /usr/local/bin that I use to invoke enscript on text
> files.  So you're not going to see the same bug.  What you may see is
> an invocation of a program from package mime-support which emits
> errors that are redirected to /dev/null.  Maybe that's okay, but I
> think this is a bit clumsy for autoconf, and it deserves a bug.

Good catch.  I think it does deserve a bug, although I wouldn't like to
guess at the proper fix, since the early-stage portability code that
Autoconf uses to bootstrap itself up to something approximating a POSIX
shell environment on all systems can be pretty hairy!

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]