Re: Internal error (weird)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* John-John Tedro wrote on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:38:00PM CEST:
> On 10/8/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > * John-John Tedro wrote on Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:16:46PM CEST:
> > >
> > > Use of uninitialized value in exists at /usr/bin/automake-1.10 line
> > 4823,
> > > <GEN0> line 1.
> > > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> > > /usr/bin/automake-1.10 line 4823, <GEN0> line 1.
> > > automake-1.10: ####################
> > > automake-1.10: ## Internal Error ##
> > > automake-1.10: ####################
> > > automake-1.10: unrequested trace `'
> > > automake-1.10: Please contact <address@hidden>.
> > >  at /usr/share/automake-1.10/Automake/Channels.pm line 570
> > >         Automake::Channels::msg('automake', '', 'unrequested trace `\'')
[...]
> > You mean, running `./configure' outputs the following, no?
> >
> > > as_func_failure succeeded.
> > > as_func_failure succeeded.
> > >
> > > Not typo, it says it twice, no matter what you do.
> > > And it's _not_ shell dependant, tested it with bash and zsh.
> >
> > How exactly do you invoke configure?  Do you have $SHELL or
> > $CONFIG_SHELL set in the environment?  Where are bash and zsh installed,
> > and which exact versions are they?  If you've compiled them yourself, or
> > if you or Gentoo have applied any patches to these shells, could you
> > provide pointers to them?
[...]
> I had /bin/sh linked to zsh, this was the problem, must be some bug in the
> zsh parser (if it's 100% sh compatible).
> I think i should take this with the zsh devs instead : P.

Which zsh version was this?

> I linked /bin/sh to bash, so now it's working.

I assume this removed the `as_func_failure succeeded.' warnings?
Did this also eliminate the internal error output by automake
(that would be surprising to me)?

Thanks,
Ralf