Re: pkg/51646: x11/modular-xorg-server fails to configure

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/51646; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/51646: x11/modular-xorg-server fails to configure
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:12:35 +0100

 On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:10:00 +0000 (UTC), David Holland wrote:
 >  On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 02:40:01PM +0000, Hauke Fath wrote:
 >   >  Hm - what is the relation between the configure script line=20
 > numbers (as=3D20
 >   >  in 'less -N') and the numbers given in config.log? What I see=20
 > doesn't=3D20
 >   >  make any sense...
 > =20
 >  There's a shell builtin for it.
 
 ???
 
 Are we talking about any shell (including my tcsh login shell), the=20
 POSIX shell, some bash magic? Something that autohell may or may not=20
 ship?=20
 
 Pardon me if I sound exasperated, because that's how I feel. All my=20
 google fu came up with was=20
 <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2004-01/msg00034.html>,=20
 and it didn't help.
 
 >  When configure thinks that's missing,
 >  it creates a "configure.lineno" script with the line numbers baked in
 >  and then runs that.=20
 
 % pwd
 /var/obj/pkgsrc/x11/modular-xorg-server/work/xorg-server-1.19.0
 % ls -dF config*
 config/           config.guess@     config.log        config.sub@      =20
 configure*        configure.ac      configure.orig*
 %
 
 >  If sh is getting it wrong it would be nice to find
 >  out why, even though it's probably unrelated to the real problem.
 > =20
 >  (Unless the problem in both cases is that it's running some other
 >  configure script than the one you're looking at, I guess...)
 
 % find . -name configure -print
 ./configure
 %
 
 I hope not?
 
 hauke
 
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