Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 14:06:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, I wrote:

> > and anything else you can think of that might help me find the problem.
> 
> I used a new version of `cat', but there are no real changes (I think) 
> except that it was built with v2.02.  I will try with the old `cat' as 
> well.

I tried this with the old `cat' from txt122b.zip (as distributed on 
SimTel.NET), and got the same results.

To recap: the problem is that configure script, at least the one from 
texinfo-3.12g pretest (now tested with 3.12h as well, with the same 
result), starts failing halfway through the script with messages like 
this:
	c:/djgpp/bin/cat.exe: -: Access denied (EACCES)

After the first time this message is printed, several additional tests 
fail silently (e.g., the scripts says that the library doesn't have 
getcwd and other functions).  Other tests cause the above message be 
printed again.

I looked into generated config.status and config.log, and both of them
include several runs of binary nulls.  This is certainly reason grave
enough for the test programs to fail, but it isn't clear to me whether 
the nulls are the cause of `cat's failures or they are generated 
*because* `cat' fails.

In any case, the problem seems to happen in handling ``here documents'', 
like in "cat > conftest.c <<EOF".

I didn't try to run in Windows 9X yet.  Mark, could you please try this 
in plain DOS mode (not in DOS box under Windows), if you didn't try that 
already, and see if you can reproduce the problem?