Re: Gnu 'configure' problems

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From: Tim Mooney
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00

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In article <4v4up1$4da@usenet10.interramp.com>,
 <dcmyers@access.digex.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 2.1R on a Pentium system, and have been having
> the worst time trying to compile flex (which I need to compile
> postgres95).  Normally I just run the 'configure' utility, which
> always works well.  This time, however, I just get a long error
> message:
  
I ran into problems with `ash', the BSD /bin/sh, when creating a `configure'
script for a GNU package I was working on.  My solution was to:

	export CONFIG_SHELL=/path/to/bash
	bash ./configure --<options>

> configure: error: missing argument to --

configure is probably doing something borderline that most shells can handle
but `ash' doesn't like.  Try using bash.

Tim
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Date: 1996/08/18
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