On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Hello, Mo!
>
> > checking for gdb... /usr/local/project/install/insight/bin/gdb
> > /home/mo/project/tcljava_ajuba/clean/tcljava/configure: syntax error near
> > unexpected token `"(c'
> > /home/mo/project/tcljava_ajuba/clean/tcljava/configure:
> > /home/mo/project/tcljava_ajuba/clean/tcljava/configure: line 3207: `
> > echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6'
>
> You are not quoting the arguments of AC_CACHE_CHECK in tcljava.m4
Doh! I fixed that and it is working now. Thanks.
> It appears that older versions of autoconf would generate (somewhat)
> working code when some quotes are missing, but the new Autoconf will
> silently generate broken code.
>
> I'm afraid that we will be overwhelmed with such "bugreports" :-(
Yup, it is very hard to figure out what is going wrong when
something like this happens. You may get swamped with "bug reports"
like mine. Better to hack some code in to check for these
common errors, if possible.
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc
