[Bug-dejagnu] problems installing!?

[Susan Elliott Sim]

I'm trying to install DejaGNU 1.4.1 and I'm having trouble with
getting past the second step!  Surely it must be something that
I'm doing wrong, since I haven't seen any email about this in
the archive.

Following the instructions, I first "./configure" and then I
"make", which results in the following error:

>  mksh: Fatal error in reader: = missing from replacement macro reference
>  Current working directory 
> /h/24/simsuz/parser/dejagnu-1.4.1/testsuite/libdejagnu
>  *** Error code 1

(The full transcript can be found at the end of this message.)

Hunting around, the error seems to be caused by lines 201-203 in
dejagnu-1.4.1/testsuite/libdejagnu/Makefile:

> DEPS_MAGIC := $(shell mkdir .deps > /dev/null 2>&1 || :)
> 
> -include $(DEP_FILES)

I've tried a number of experiments with this line (and downstream
consequences to the change), but no luck.  I figure, it's now time
to ask the experts.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Susan


qew.cs% ls
AUTHORS         README          config.log      example/        site.tmpl
COPYING         TODO            config.status*  i960glue.c      stub-loader.c
ChangeLog       acinclude.m4    config.sub*     install-sh*     tcl-mode.el
INSTALL         aclocal.m4      configure*      lib/            testglue.c
Makefile        baseboards/     configure.in    missing*        testsuite/
Makefile.am     config/         contrib/        mkinstalldirs*
Makefile.in     config.cache    dejagnu.h       runtest*
NEWS            config.guess*   doc/            runtest.exp*
qew.cs% ./configure
loading cache ./config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for c++... (cached) c++
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) works... yes
checking whether the C++ compiler (c++  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C++... (cached) yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./install-sh -c
checking for Cygwin environment... (cached) no
checking for mingw32 environment... (cached) no
checking for executable suffix... (cached) no
checking for docbook tools... none
checking for the tclsh program... (cached) /local/bin/tclsh
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating doc/Makefile
creating testsuite/Makefile
creating example/Makefile
creating testsuite/libdejagnu/Makefile
configuring in example/calc
running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=../.././config.cache --srcdir=.
loading cache ../.././config.cache
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./../../install-sh -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... (cached) yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working autoconf... found
checking for working automake... missing
checking for working autoheader... found
checking for working makeinfo... found
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) works... yes
checking whether the C compiler (gcc  ) is a cross-compiler... no
checking whether we are using GNU C... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for a BSD compatible install... ./../../install-sh -c
checking how to run the C preprocessor... (cached) gcc -E
checking for stdlib.h... (cached) yes
checking for strcmp... (cached) yes
creating ./config.status
creating Makefile
creating calc.h
calc.h is unchanged
qew.cs% make
Making all in doc
Making all in testsuite
Making all in libdejagnu
mksh: Fatal error in reader: = missing from replacement macro reference
Current working directory /h/24/simsuz/parser/dejagnu-1.4.1/testsuite/libdejagnu
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
Current working directory /h/24/simsuz/parser/dejagnu-1.4.1/testsuite
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive'
qew.cs%