Ian Jackson writes ("[PATCH v5.1 8/8] configure: do_compiler: Dump some extra
info under bash"):
> This makes it much easier to find a particular thing in config.log.
>
> The information may be lacking in other shells, resulting in harmless
> empty output. (This is why we don't use the proper ${FUNCNAME[*]}
> array syntax - other shells will choke on that.)
>
> The extra output is only printed if configure is run with bash. The
> something), it is necessary to say bash ./configure to get the extra
> debug info in the log.
Kent Spillner points out that this last sentence is garbled. The
paragraph should read:
The extra output is only printed if configure is run with bash. On
systems where /bin/sh is not bash, it is necessary to say bash
./configure to get the extra debug info in the log.
I have updated it in my branch.
Ian.
