On terminals that don't support boldface, autogen.sh fails. I do have tput installed, but it returns a nonzero value on such a terminal, which causes autogen.sh to stop. Patch to fix it: diff --git a/autogen.sh b/autogen.sh index 73455ef..4253a91 100755 --- a/autogen.sh +++ b/autogen.sh @@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ esac # some terminal codes ... -boldface="`tput bold 2>/dev/null`" -normal="`tput sgr0 2>/dev/null`" +boldface="`tput bold 2>/dev/null || true`" +normal="`tput sgr0 2>/dev/null || true`" printbold() { echo $ECHO_N "$boldface" echo "$@"
Committed. Thanks. commit 189feaf352f59b0a049202552024578715ef8cc7 Author: Chris Heath <chris@heathens.co.nz> Date: Mon Oct 15 17:31:50 2007 -0400 [autogen.sh] Tolerate tput failure (#12757)
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