Re: ltconfig fails during 'configure'

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Boehne <address@hidden> writes:

Robert> Ok, I changed AC_CANNONICAL_HOST to AC_CANNONICAL_SYSTEM in
Robert> configure.ac and it works.  However, this doesn't appear to be
Robert> the 'proper' fix because AC_CANNONICAL_SYSTEM is obsolete.  I
Robert> also have tried AC_CANNONICAL_TARGET, which works.  It seems
Robert> to me that AC_CANNONICAL_HOST should set $host, so perhaps
Robert> this is a bug in the Autoconf macro.

???

/tmp % cat configure.ac                                          nostromo Err 1
AC_INIT
echo 1. $host
AC_CANONICAL_HOST
echo 2. $host
/tmp % ace                                                       nostromo 15:05
/tmp % ./configure                                               nostromo 15:05
1.
configure: error: cannot find install-sh or install.sh in . ./.. ./../..
/tmp % ./configure --srcdir=$ace                                 nostromo Err 1
1.
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
2. i686-pc-linux-gnu