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Re: configure checking for csh hash hack
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: configure checking for csh hash hack |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:39:31 +0200 (CEST) |
> 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