#7992: Wrong invocation of configure script in libffi and integer-gmp ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: merijn | Owner: Type: bug | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Build System | Version: 7.7 Keywords: patch | Os: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Building GHC failed Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase: Blockedby: | Blocking: Related: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Comment(by igloo): How curious: {{{ ghc/libffi/build$ cat `which configure` #!/bin/sh echo Hello, this is my configure ghc/libffi/build$ sh configure --help Hello, this is my configure ghc/libffi/build$ sh ./configure --help `configure' configures libffi 3.0.11 to adapt to many kinds of systems. [...] }}} configure seems to try to find the location of the configure script, and re-exec itself. This goes wrong if there's a configure script in `$PATH` and we use `sh configure`. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7992#comment:4 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler