From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: Command parsing problem and tracefile Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:30:18 -0500 Message-ID: <20120608213018.GA13550@burratino> References: <4FD22F1B.3090208@gmail.com> <20120608171730.GG10380@burratino> <4FD26CA5.6090602@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:40612 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753651Ab2FHVa2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:30:28 -0400 Received: by yhmm54 with SMTP id m54so1630988yhm.19 for ; Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FD26CA5.6090602@gmail.com> Sender: dash-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dash@vger.kernel.org To: Richard H Lee Cc: dash@vger.kernel.org Richard H Lee wrote: > It didn't occur to me to try other shells. I get the same error with > bash. It makes me wonder why it occurs on three different shells? Yes, that's because it's a bug in the configure script, not dash. Your best bet is to contact whoever provided that configure script and explain that --enable-static is not working for you. The specification that defines POSIX shell script syntax can be found at . Good luck, Jonathan