[gst-devel] configure script fails to complete.

[David Schleef]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 12:54:41AM +0000, evert vorster wrote:
> On to the issue:
> 
> On running ./configure in the gstreamer and gst-plugins-base source
> directories, it fails with these errors:
> 
> gstreamer:
> ----------snip ---------------------------------------
> checking for GLIB... yes
> ./configure: line 32020: syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./configure: line 32020: `  for ac_var in `(set) 2>&1 | sed -n
> 's/^\([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*\)=.*/\1/p'`; do'

That line comes from a very low-level autoconf macro in autoconf.m4.
It is technically valid shell, although cryptic.  That is, it is
valid in *my* configure script.  You could have a different version
of autoconf that has broken the generated shell script.

However, on the surface it looks more like your shell interpreter
(i.e., /bin/sh, which may not be bash) is buggy.



dave...