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Re: b20: BUG sh configure makes a mess (win98)


> > I am trying to compile several programs and i arrived to the conclusion
> > that configure
> > doesn't work properly on b20.
> >
> > I ALWAYS get a mess, and the resulting config.h is full of #undef when
> > it shouldn't.
> > I have check several things and most of the 'if test' doesn't work as
> > they should.
> > the grep program should return 1 or 0 and sometimes it doesn't return
> > anything on the configure,
> > which make it think there is not such thing.
> >
> > After several assignation on the configure, it seems that it does not
> > assign any more, things like...
> > whatever = `echo blalbla`
> > in a bucle, works for 20 times, and then after several times in the
> > loop, it stop working and
> > whatever gets = nothing.
>
> as I have reported, this seems to be a bug within the "sh.exe", since the
> forking of the configure script is calling a own sh for every
>
>     whatever = `echo blabla`
>
> after some (20 or 30) calls within the loop it gets boggus.
>
> Regards,
> Stipe
>
> --
> Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
> Cygwin Porting Project
> Department of Economical Computer Science
> University of Cologne, Germany
> http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj





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