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Re: Possible bug
Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote:
> code in tvtime boot strap thats failing
> -----------------------------------------------------
> test -x "$AUTOHEADER" ||
> AUTOHEADER="autoheader`echo "$AUTOCONF" | sed 's/.*autoconf//'`" &&
> AUTOHEADER=`type -p "$AUTOHEADER"` ||
> {
> echo `basename $0`: GNU Autoconf installed improperly 1>&2 &&
> exit 2;
> }
>
> in tvtime bootstrap under cygwin im geting the message
>
> GNU Autoconf installed improperly
>
> but not in fedora
That's a fault of the tvtime configure script then it seems. Under
linux, sh is bash, but not under Cygwin (and many other nixes) where sh
is the standard bourne shell. "type -p" is a bashism, you can't use it
in a sh script. "sh" does not support any flags for the "type" builtin.
Brian
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