Re: configure checking for csh hash hack

[Werner LEMBERG]

> The script does the following:
> 
>     if echo ./conftest.sh | (csh >/dev/null 2>&1) >/dev/null 2>&1;
> 
> On my PC, the script hangs at that line (csh doesn't exit).
> Admittedly, its my fault: I've modified my .cshrc to do this:
> 
>     if ( $?prompt )  exec /bin/bash -i
> 
> and removing my hacked .cshrc solves it.  However, wouldn't it be
> cleaner for configure to use the '-f' option to 'csh' and avoid
> running user .cshrc scripts altogether?

Please ask this on the `bug-autoconf' mailing list.  We are simply
using whatever `autoconf' is generating.  Providing patches on top of
the autoconf output had to applied again and again, which is too much
a burden.


    Werner