From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:35:20 -0800 Message-ID: <20020227043520.A75495@king.cts.com> References: <20020226141451.A35087@king.cts.com> <200202270550.g1R5opW17599@aztec.santafe.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014813618 31620 195.204.10.66 (27 Feb 2002 12:40:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2002 12:40:18 GMT Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Keith Thompson Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16g3Na-0008Du-00 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:40:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16g3Je-0007fO-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:36:14 -0500 Original-Received: from usagi.cts.com ([209.68.192.66]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16g3In-0007d8-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:35:21 -0500 Original-Received: from king.cts.com (king.cts.com [209.68.192.180]) by usagi.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA78300; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:35:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: (from kst@localhost) by king.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA76062; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:35:20 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Richard Stallman Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200202270550.g1R5opW17599@aztec.santafe.edu>; from rms@gnu.org on Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:50:51PM -0700 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1596 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1596 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 San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be" _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel