Re: configure script changes /dev/null permissions

[Michael Albinus]

Hans Halvorson <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is in line 100 of "configure.ac", which instructs texi2dvi
> to rewrite /dev/null as a (read only) file.  The following change to
> line 100 is sufficient to fix the problem:
>
> -- ${TEXI2DVI} -b -q -c -o /dev/null texi/test.texi 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
>
> ++ ${TEXI2DVI} -b -q -c texi/test.texi 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

The intention was to discard the output file, because it is just a
test run. Anyway, I've fixed it in CVS.

> Best wishes,
> Hans

Thanks for investigating, and best regards, Michael.