[GRASSLIST:9694] Re: [GRASS5] Re: compilation (again) - also: Re: [GRASS5] [bug #3918] (grass) configure syntax error

[Markus Neteler]

Daniel Calvelo wrote:

>On 12/30/05, Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
>  
>
>>In fact, there is a bug in 'configure' which is happily ignored
>>on RHEL and Mandriva (also others) but not on Debian:
>>
>>configure, line 1361:
>>            if test -r /etc/.relid -a "X`uname -n`" = "X`uname -s`" ; then
>>                system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print }' /etc/.relid'`
>>            fi
>>                                   ^- 1     ^- 2         ^- 3
>>
>>This doesn't look good. My 'vim' does syntax highlighting, so it
>>was rather easy to find it.
>>
>>Culprit is in
>>aclocal.m4:             system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print $3}' /etc/.relid'`
>>
>>Strange, that it existed for years. Also other programs contain it
>>like that. Maybe it's right? I have commented it in aclocal.m4
>>and re-generated the configure script. Both is updated in CVS.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, the syntax error comes from an excess apostrophe; try instead of
>commenting it to delete that last ', after .relid and before the
>backquote.
>
>It seems there would exist a system for autotools called MP-RAS-XXX
>where XXX is contained in that system in a file called /etc/.relid
>
>  
>
Thanks Daniel,

fix applied to both 6.1-CVS and 6.0-CVS (for RC2 and 6.0.2 final).

Markus