Config.status on OS X

[Bryan Blackburn]

Actually, I've found it's zsh reacting with the line (right near the top)

CDPATH=

When this is changed to

unset CDPATH

the original method of setting missing_dir works just fine.

Bryan


On Jun 16, 2001 01:06, David Champion stated:
> On 2001.06.15, in <87n17a5hw5.fsf@alberti.gnupg.de>,
> 	"Werner Koch" <wk@gnupg.org> wrote:
> >  || On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 21:58:31 +0200
> >  || Sebastian Hagedorn <Hagedorn@spinfo.uni-koeln.de> wrote: 
> > 
> >  sh> missing_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd`
> > 
> >  sh> missing_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir`
> > 
> >  sh> works just fine.
> > 
> > Bit the latter is a total differnt thing.  && is a standard shell
> > operation and absolutely needed.  This should be fixed then.  The
> 
> It sounds as though Apple's environment executes this in a zsh that's
> aliased "cd" to echo the new cwd after chdir.  The fix should be to
> ditch such aliases before running, or else to force execution under a
> real sh, or whatever zsh-y thing will enforce proper behavior.
> 
> Well, or to modify the autoconf stuff to use a chdir instead of a cd.
> 
> I'm sort of curious... does this problem arise while configuring as
> root, or as admin (or as a user)?
> 
> -- 
>  -D.	dgc@uchicago.edu	NSIT	University of Chicago
>