* Re: PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure [not found] <20020226141451.A35087@king.cts.com> @ 2002-02-27 5:50 ` Richard Stallman 2002-02-27 12:35 ` Keith Thompson 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-02-27 5:50 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel, kst 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? Index: configure.in =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/configure.in,v retrieving revision 1.284 retrieving revision 1.285 diff -c -c -r1.284 -r1.285 *** configure.in 27 Jan 2002 10:03:14 -0000 1.284 --- configure.in 27 Feb 2002 03:53:03 -0000 1.285 *************** *** 114,120 **** . ) ## We may be able to use the $PWD environment variable to make this ## absolute. But sometimes PWD is inaccurate. ! if test ".${PWD}" != "." && test ".`(cd ${PWD} ; sh -c pwd)`" = ".${PWD}" ; then srcdir="$PWD" else --- 114,123 ---- . ) ## We may be able to use the $PWD environment variable to make this ## absolute. But sometimes PWD is inaccurate. ! ## Note: we used to use ${PWD} at the end instead of `pwd`, ! ## but that tested only for a well-formed and valid PWD, ! ## it did not object when PWD was well-formed and valid but just wrong. ! if test ".${PWD}" != "." && test ".`(cd ${PWD} ; sh -c pwd)`" = ".`pwd`" ; then srcdir="$PWD" else *************** *** 354,359 **** --- 357,367 ---- ## We'll use the catch-all code at the bottom to guess the ## operating system. ;; + + ## Compaq Nonstop + mips-compaq-nonstopux* ) + machine=nonstopux opsys=nonstopux + ;; ## Convex *-convex-bsd* | *-convex-convexos* ) _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure 2002-02-27 5:50 ` PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure Richard Stallman @ 2002-02-27 12:35 ` Keith Thompson 2002-02-28 4:08 ` Richard Stallman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Keith Thompson @ 2002-02-27 12:35 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel, Keith Thompson 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> 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: PWD problem in emacs-21.1 configure 2002-02-27 12:35 ` Keith Thompson @ 2002-02-28 4:08 ` Richard Stallman 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Richard Stallman @ 2002-02-28 4:08 UTC (permalink / raw) Cc: emacs-devel, kst Thanks. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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