Re: Fwd: Re: zsh compilation problem with autoconf git

[Clint Adams <schizo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:03:33AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> I am forwarding your message to zsh-workers list. To summarise the issue zsh 
> modules are not compiled with upcoming autoconf 2.62 and Ralf successfully 
> identified that zsh/Src/mkmakemod.sh does some unportable stuff :
> 
>     # check 2.13, 2.50, and 2.60 syntaxes
>     if grep '%@D@%D%' config.status >/dev/null ||
>        grep ',@D@,D,' config.status >/dev/null ||
>        grep ',@D@,|#_!!_#|D,' config.status >/dev/null; then
>         is_dynamic=true
>     else
>         is_dynamic=false
>     fi
> 
> So the question is, is this thing needed at all, if yes why?

Presumably Src/mkmakemod.sh would need to be generated to check that
value in any supported manner.  I don't recall a reason that that
can't be done.