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28 Jul 2024 14:27:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: "configure" script broken in beta 29 (unix source package)  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 22 Dec 2008 16:39:17
Message: <49500904@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Line 6446 of the "configure" script shipped with the beta 29 is broken;
> the line reads:
> 
>     ax_compiler_version=`cat conftest.out | 's,.*[[:space:]],,'`
> 
> which is obviously nonsense, and should probably read instead:
> 
>     ax_compiler_version=`cat conftest.out | sed 's,.*[[:space:]],,'`
> 
> This doesn't show when using the standard settings, but gets in the way
> when trying to configure for the Intel C++ compiler using the following
> settings:
> 
> ../configure --prefix=/foo/bar COMPILED_BY="foobar" CXX=icpc
> 
> on a Debian "Etch" 4.0r5 AMD64 Linux using the 11.0 Intel(R)64 version of
> the intel compiler.
> 
> Don't know whether this is a general autoconf bug though, or POV-Ray
> specific.

If that line isn't in configure.ac (or configure.in, not sure what POV calls
it), it's an autoconf problem.


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