5189 - BSDI /bin/sh handles "." differently, prevents configure running

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect, P3)

Description

[jepler]

I'm trying to build M4 on bsdi2.1.  I get the following error:
-> ./configure
.: Can't open load-mozconfig.sh
this is because /bin/sh on bsdi2.1 does not search $PATH for the file argument
to ".".  The following change seems to fix it, and I believe but am unsure that
it will continue to function properly on shells which do search $PATH for ".":
--- altoptions.m4.orig  Fri Apr 16 12:48:34 1999
+++ altoptions.m4       Fri Apr 16 12:50:27 1999
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@
 # See the load-mozconfig.sh script for more details.
 TOPSRCDIR=`dirname [$]0`
 PATH="$TOPSRCDIR/build/autoconf:$PATH"
-. load-mozconfig.sh])
+. $TOPSRCDIR/load-mozconfig.sh])

 dnl This gets inserted at the top of the configure script
 MOZ_READ_MOZCONFIG

Comment 1

[jepler]

Rather,
. $TOPSRCDIR/build/autoconf/load-mozconfig.sh

Comment 2

[Steve Lamm]

I added this. I'll take a look.

Comment 3

[Steve Lamm]

Ok, I checked in the fix. I am not sure if configure will pick up this change
automatically (i.e. The cron job may only have a dependency on configure.in). I
changed these files,

mozilla/build/autoconf/load-mozconfig.sh
mozilla/build/autoconf/altoptions.m4