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Re: [Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts

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From: Peter O'Gorman <peter@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Eric Norum <eric.norum@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] zsh breaks configure scripts
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 23:58:32 +0900
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And why are you sending this here? Fink has no control overwhich shell Apple decides to ship, although they will eventuallymove to using bash as /bin/sh, probably not until 10.2 or evenlater...


Peter

On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 11:51  PM, Eric Norum wrote:

Apple uses zsh as /bin/sh on Mac OS X. Unfortunately zsh has a`feature' that breaks many autoconf configure scripts. Thescripts contain lines like:
if test "`CDPATH=:; cd $srcdir && pwd`" != "`pwd`" && .......
The problem is that the zsh cd command insists on printing thedirectory!
The offending code is in cd_new_pwd() in Src/builtins.c aroundline 1047:

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