configure produces zero length Makefile

[David Shaw]

On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 03:27:47PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> 
> > Time to update my autoconf.  I think it is in general better to report
> > such stuff to the autoconf folks.  There is not much we can do in
> > GnuPG about it.
>  
>  Well, you already have "upgraded" gnupg from the proven stable autoconf 2.13
>  to the proven buggy autoconf 2.5x.
> 
> $ cd gnupg-1.0.7
> $ ./configure
> [...]
> checking for sendmail... /usr/sbin/sendmail
> [...]
> $ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
> ls: /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory
> $ 
> 
>  This serious bug (botched evaluation of $PATH in AC_PATH_PROG) was fixed in
>  autoconf 2.53a (prerelease version).
> 
>  The gnupg bug is that you don't look for /usr/lib/sendmail :)

This was fixed.  It now checks $PATH, /usr/sbin, /usr/libexec, and
/usr/lib

David

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