Why doesn't autoconf like our /bin/sh?

[Mike Meyer]

On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:44:33 +0200
Stefan Farfeleder <stefan at fafoe.narf.at> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:27:12PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not
> > sure quite what to do with it. I've already sent mail to the autoconf
> > folks, but I'd like to understand what's going on.
> > 
> > The problem is that, on a FreeBSD system with only /bin/sh and the
> > ports zsh as installed shells, if you have SHELL set to zsh when
> > invoking the autoconf-generated configure script, the script produces
> > a broken Makefile. It doesn't generate an error, it just complains
> > that:
> 
> Can you please retry?  /bin/sh now supports expanding $LINENO which was
> often the reason for configure not liking it.

Which branch, and how recently?

      <mike
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