[krbdev.mit.edu #1242] mainline util/reconf does not work

[Sam Hartman via RT]

I get the following output  on a Debian system:

hartmans at solipsist-nation:src(12)> ./util/reconf  --force
Remaking all configuration files
Using autoconf version 2.53 found in your path...
Patching autoreconf
About to patch /usr/bin/autoreconf to ...
/tmp/autoreconf30187: use: command not found
/tmp/autoreconf30187: use: command not found
/tmp/autoreconf30187: use: command not found
/tmp/autoreconf30187: use: command not found
/tmp/autoreconf30187: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `{'
/tmp/autoreconf30187: line 8: `if ($0 =~ /autoconf$/) {'


hartmans at solipsist-nation:src(14)> dpkg -l autoconf*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  autoconf       2.53-2         automatic configure script builder
ii  autoconf2.13   2.13-43        automatic configure script builder (obsolete


One issue that may be problematic here is that Debian has the autoconf
scripts try to determine whether autoconf 2.5 or 2.13 should be used
if both are installed, so /usr/bin/autoreconf may not be what you
expect.