[IRCServices Coding] EOF in backquote substitution error during ./configure

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Tue Nov 18 12:32:39 PST 2003


Sen
Message-ID: <3fb9930b.03510 at achurch.org>

(private CC because the mailing list seems to be broken)

     I'll be releasing 5.0.25 soon with a fix for the backquote problem.
In the meantime, use patch -R (reverse) to go back to an earlier version.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>	Was Arathorn the only one to run across the backquote substitution error 
>when configuring 5.0.24 ?  I just patched from 5.0.22 to 5.0.24 and am 
>getting the following during ./configure:
>
>Checking sanity of /bin/sh... high.
>Searching for a suitable compiler... ./configure: 29: Syntax error: EOF in 
>backquote substitution
>
>	I'm not familiar enough with 'patch' to know if it supports 'rollbacks' to 
>previous versions (didn't see anyting in the man page), and 5.0.22's .tgz 
>isn't on the ftp sites.  Ideas ? (other than patching from 5.0.0 --> 5.0.24)
>	As I didn't configure/make/make install after going from 5.0.22 -> 5.0.23, 
>I'm not sure which patch was responsible (ie. I did both patches, then ran 
>configure after a gmake clean).
>
>gmake 3.80
>FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE
>
>David
>
>
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