From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9644 invoked from network); 1 May 1998 14:07:39 -0000 Received: from math.gatech.edu (list@130.207.146.50) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 1 May 1998 14:07:39 -0000 Received: (from list@localhost) by math.gatech.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA00356; Fri, 1 May 1998 10:02:39 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 10:02:39 -0400 (EDT) To: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Subject: Re: 3.1.3 - config.status file generation problems... References: <199805011329.OAA14340@taos.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Bruce Stephens Date: 01 May 1998 15:02:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: Andrew Main's message of "Fri, 1 May 1998 14:29:49 +0100 (BST)" Message-ID: X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.6/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Resent-Message-ID: <"pEwca.0.T5.-NTIr"@math> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/3905 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu Andrew Main writes: > As I suspected, you have a duff config.status, caused by bogus > editing. It looks as if the shell you used to run the configure > script has translated '\\' to '\' within single quotes, which is > well out of order. Yes, that was it. /bin/sh on Solaris 2.5.1 seems to do this (as does zsh-3.1.2-zefram3). Explicitly using bash seems to have fixed it.