Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 11:25:02AM +0000, rudolf wrote:
>>  Configuration script for Hobbit
>>  
>>  ./configure: line 222: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
>>  ./configure: line 222: `                fi'
>>  *** Error code 2
> 
> I cannot reproduce this error, and I fail to see anything wrong in the 
> configure script. Are we sure this is not a bash bug?
> 

The configure script is ok, the patch-ae is wrong. The following is 
syntactically invalid in bash:
---start---
#!/usr/pkg/bin/bash
if echo
   echo
else
#
fi
---end---

we need to comment out the ``else'' in patch-ae too:
---
if ...
...
#else
#
fi
---

r.