Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!chip
From: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Configure Glitch
Message-ID: <641@vector.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 01:12:38 GMT
References: <312@drd.UUCP>
Reply-To: chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal)
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In article <312@drd.UUCP> mark@drd.UUCP (Le Noueveau Eaukee) writes:
>I'm bringing up 2.1 on a Sun 3/50 running 3.5 for the first time.  After
>specifiying 'bsd' and taking all the defaults, the Configure script 
>barfs with:
>
>	Configure: test: argument expected

Not a surprise.  Configure is really ugly.  I'll take the blame for this
foul-up.  I mucked with this particular section to add XENIX support, and
I probably introduced this bug.  I believe your problem is occuring in
the test command below:

>		BSD)
>		    osdefine="-DBSD"
>		    lib2="-lcurses"
>		    if [ $sequent != 1 ] ; then
>			getopt=""
>		    fi
>		    ;;

Simply add a couple of quotation marks, as follows:

>		    if [ "$sequent" != 1 ] ; then

Hopefully this will fix it.  I'm not involved in the development of the
next Elm release, but I'm told that Configure is going to be chucked and
Larry Wall's "dist" package will be used.  This will be a !big! improvement.
-- 
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