Re: configure error

[Ralf Wildenhues]

> Joey Mingrone wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 06:56, Patrick Welche <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> That comes from automake's AM_SANITY_CHECK (m4/sanity.m4) which failed on
> >>
> >>   ls -t "$srcdir/configure" conftest.file
> >>
> >> So, what "ls" is on the system, and is "ls" really /bin/ls or is it an
> >> alias? (I'm just paraphrasing the error message ;-) )
> 
> > Yeah, /bin/ls is there, but it's not gnu ls.  It does support the -t
> > option as well (sort by modified time).

The -t option to ls is specified by Posix.  What ls is this that it does
not understand it?  I haven't come across such thing.

> > I think I'm getting closer.  I just moved /bin/ls out of the way and
> > put gnu ls in its place and configure ran without errors.  Now to
> > figure out how to patch configure.in so it doesn't expect gnu ls.

You'd have to modify the sanity.m4 macro file shipped with Automake.
I suggest however that we find out what system this is, and fix it, or
work around it in upstream Automake.

Thanks,
Ralf