bug#11214: 24.0.92; Errors from config.status

bug#11214: 24.0.92; Errors from config.status

[Richard Stallman]

I did bzr update just now, then, in the source directory,
./configure CFLAGS="-g -O0"
It produced these errors:

config.status: executing gdbinit commands
./config.status: line 2085: src/.gdbinit : Permission denied
./config.status: line 2086: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
./config.status: line 2086: `fi'

src/.gdbinit does exist, with mode r--r--r--.
I don't think this caused any real problem,
but it is still a bug.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (mips64el-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2011-12-06 on theobromine2
Bzr revision: unknown
Configured using:
 `configure '-C' 'CFLAGS=-g -O1''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Mail

Minor modes in effect:
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  display-battery-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f e m a c s - b z r / t r u n k / c o n f i g 
. s t t a u s DEL DEL DEL DEL a t u s RET ESC > C-u 
C-p C-u C-p C-u C-p ESC v ESC v ESC v ESC v ESC v ESC 
< C-s e x e c u t i n g C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n 
C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-s g d b i n i 
t C-a C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p 
C-p C-@ C-@ C-n ESC x r e p o r t SPC e m a s DEL c 
s SPC b u g RET E r r o r s SPC f r o n SPC c o n f 
i g . s t a t u s ESC b ESC b C-b DEL m RET I SPC r 
a n SPC ESC x l o a d SPC f i l e RET / DEL e m a c 
s - b z r / l i s p / m DEL ESC b t r u n c k DEL DEL 
k / C-e e m a c s b TAB ESC b m a i l / C-e TAB RET 
ESC x r e ESC p ESC p RET ESC p RET y ESC : ( s e r 
t q DEL DEL DEL t q SPC e m a c s - b z r - v e r s 
i o n SPC " u n k n o w n " ) RET ESC x ESC p ESC p 
ESC n RET

Recent messages:
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/gnus/mm-bodies.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/gnus/mm-encode.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/gnus/mm-decode.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/gnus/mml-sec.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/emacs-lisp/easymenu.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/mail/rfc822.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Source file `/home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/format-spec.el' newer than byte-compiled file
Loading /home/rms/emacs-bzr/trunk/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el (source)...done
Unsent message being composed; erase it? (y or n)  y
if: Symbol's value as variable is void: emacs-bzr-version
"unknown"

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow message format-spec rfc822 mml easymenu mml-sec mm-decode
mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader
mailalias sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr
mail-utils emacsbug multi-isearch vc-bzr regexp-opt sh-script
executable t-mouse time-date battery paren cus-start cus-load tooltip
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd
fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan
thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces
cus-face files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env
code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)


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bug#11214: 24.0.92; Errors from config.status

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I did bzr update just now, then, in the source directory,
> ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O0"
> It produced these errors:
>
> config.status: executing gdbinit commands
> ./config.status: line 2085: src/.gdbinit : Permission denied
> ./config.status: line 2086: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> ./config.status: line 2086: `fi'

The configure script you generated appears to be corrupt.  What is the
contents of config.status around that line?

Andreas.

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bug#11214: 24.0.92; Errors from config.status

[Chong Yidong]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> config.status: executing gdbinit commands
>> ./config.status: line 2085: src/.gdbinit : Permission denied
>> ./config.status: line 2086: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
>> ./config.status: line 2086: `fi'
>
> The configure script you generated appears to be corrupt.  What is the
> contents of config.status around that line?

Please run autogen.sh to regenerate your configure script; as Andreas
says, it must have gotten corrupted somehow.  Since there's been no
further reply, I'm closing the bug; feel free to reopen if you still
experience the problem after regenerating configure.

bug#11214: 24.0.92; Errors from config.status

[Andreas Schwab]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> I did bzr update just now, then, in the source directory,
> ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O0"
> It produced these errors:
>
> config.status: executing gdbinit commands
> ./config.status: line 2085: src/.gdbinit : Permission denied
> ./config.status: line 2086: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> ./config.status: line 2086: `fi'

That appears to be a bug in autoconf, triggered by the use of make in
config.status.  That may trigger a regeneration of configure which
eventually rewrites config.status in place, while it is still executed
by the shell.  The configure script should probably generate
config.status atomically, or at least remove it prior to writing to it.

Andreas.

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