294225 - Tinderbox2 configure emits spurious errors on OpenBSD

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Webtools Graveyard :: Tinderbox2, defect)

Description

[Darren Tucker]

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On OpenBSD, running tinderbox2's configure emits the following error, but
completes and builds OK.
$ ./configure
xargs: unknown option -- l
usage: xargs [-0opt] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr [-R replacements]] [-J replstr]
            [-L number] [-n number [-x]] [-P maxprocs] [-s size]
            [utility [argument ...]]
Building Makefile
Building config.out

This appears to be an artifact of how configure tries various arguments to xargs.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run ./configure on OpenBSD (and, presumably, other BSDs too).
Actual Results:  
$ ./configure
xargs: unknown option -- l
usage: xargs [-0opt] [-E eofstr] [-I replstr [-R replacements]] [-J replstr]
            [-L number] [-n number [-x]] [-P maxprocs] [-s size]
            [utility [argument ...]]
Building Makefile
Building config.out
[configures and builds OK]

Expected Results:  
Should not have emmitted a spurious error.

Will attach patch to fix.

Comment 1

[Darren Tucker]

Attachment: send errors during xargs test to /dev/null

Comment 2

[Mike Taylor [:bear]]

patch applied - thanks for the help

I tested it on Ubuntu (hoary hedgehog) and OSX (Tiger) - if you wouldn't mind
running it on your system and let me know any issues?

Comment 3

[Darren Tucker]

Just updated tinderbox2 to CVS current and can confirm that this issue is fixed
in configure rev 1.24.  Thanks.