Re: GNU Automake 1.8.2 released

[David Favor]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > > "Lars" == Lars Hecking <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
>  Lars> aclocal-1.8 and automake-1.8 exist in the tests
>  Lars> subdir. The installed automake is version 1.7.9.
>
>  Lars> The test passes successfully if automake 1.8.2 is
>  Lars> installed (~/bin).
>
> So that looks exactly like David's report.  
>
> How and where do you set PATH in your config files?
>
> Does 
>   PATH=x:$PATH sh -c 'echo $PATH'
> print a PATH that starts with x:?
>
> David, you said you finally found the error on your side.  Which
> file was incorrectly setting PATH in your case and how did you
> fix it?  (I've been looking at the doc of sh on a few platform,
> but haven't found any indication of startup files which are read
> by non-interactive shells.)

The problem was I had a shell startup file which was setting $PATH
each time a new shell is invoked. This of course removed the path
to alocal which is set by 'export PATH=path_to_alocal:$PATH set in
one of the Makefiles.

My fix was to fix the broken part of my shell startup file.

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