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Subject: Re: Removing configure flags?
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:17:01 +0200
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To: HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de>
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Hello,

HiPhish <hiphish@posteo.de> skribis:

> Thanks to both of you I can now at least get the configure script to run,=
 but=20
> it stops because it cannot find `cat`:
>
> starting phase `configure'
> building for Linux on localhost at Tue Sep 11 10:46:19 UTC 2018
> looking for /bin/sh./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
>  (nope)
> looking for bash./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
> ./configure: line 89: expr: command not found
> ./configure: line 89: expr: command not found

[...]

> From my understanding, `cat` is part of coreutils, which is already an=20
> implicit input of the GNU build system. So the configure script should ha=
ve=20
> it, shouldn't it?

Indeed.  Could it be that =E2=80=98configure=E2=80=99 overrides PATH, setti=
ng it to,
say, /bin:/usr/bin?  (You mentioned =E2=80=98getconf PATH=E2=80=99 yesterda=
y on IRC,
perhaps that=E2=80=99s related?)

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.