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.

Post a reply to this message