On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 08:49:34AM -0500, mlevins--- via Patches for the config.guess and config.sub scripts wrote: > After commit 827c77253b396c07306927b2a4b794a3251c48eb in the GNU config > repository, word splitting is no longer performed on the $sysctl shell > variable in config.guess: > > sysctl="sysctl -n hw.machine_arch" > UNAME_MACHINE_ARCH=$( (uname -p 2>/dev/null || \ > "/sbin/$sysctl" 2>/dev/null || \ > "/usr/sbin/$sysctl" 2>/dev/null || \ > echo unknown)) > > This would attempt to run an executable named "sysctl -n hw.machine_arch" > (instead of an executable named "sysctl"). > > It could be fixed by removing the quotes again, or by spelling out the full > command twice instead of using a shell variable at all. Two alternative > patches are attached.
Applied one of them, thanks! -- ldv
