From: Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Keith Thompson <kst@cts.com>
Subject: Re: PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:35:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020227043520.A75495@king.cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200202270550.g1R5opW17599@aztec.santafe.edu>; from rms@gnu.org on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:50:51PM -0700
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:50:51PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I can't see what motivated the change from `pwd` to ${PWD},
> so I changed that back, and added more explanation in case
> we encounter some other problem with this method.
>
> Does this change make it work again?
>
[snip patch for configure.in]
Yes, thanks, that does it.
I patched configure.in, ran autoconf (version 2.13) to build configure,
then ran "configure", "make", and "make install" (using an older version
of my Perl build script that doesn't unset $PWD). The result was a
working emacs installation.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@cts.com <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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2002-02-27 5:50 ` PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure Richard Stallman
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