stray dot in freetds configure on OSX (was Re: Freetds (was Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] changes pushed))

[Mark Brand]

> On OSX, autoconf (2.65 and 2.67) create a ./configure file with a
> single . on line 5
>
> #! /bin/sh
> # From configure.ac Revision: 1.55 .
> # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
> # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.67 for FreeTDS 0.83.dev.-n 20100910
> .
> #
> #
> # Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
> # 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software
> # Foundation, Inc.
>
> This causes configure to fail, but I can't see where it's coming from.
> Any ideas? I don't really want to backtrace versions of autotools.

That's very strange. My configure looks like this:

> #! /bin/sh
> # From configure.ac Revision: 1.55 .
> # Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
> # Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.65 for FreeTDS 0.83.dev.20100911.
> #
> #
> # Copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
> # 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation,
> # Inc.

A wild guess would be that your "echo" does not like the "-n" at line 5 
in configure.ac:

> AC_INIT(FreeTDS, 0.83.dev.esyscmd(echo -n $(date +"%Y%m%d")))

Care to experiment?


Mark