On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:21:19 -0400 Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:40 PM Jani Välimaa <wa...@mageia.org> wrote: > > autoreconf seems to be failing with autoconf-2.69c with the following > > AC_INIT in configure.ac. > > > > AC_INIT([test], > > [m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version])], > > [bug-autoconf@gnu.org]) > > > > Same happens also with other m4_* macros wrapped with []. > > This is the same as https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110349 > . See the threads linked from that bug for further discussion. > > In this case, you really _shouldn't_ wrap the m4_esyscmd invocation in > [], because it should only be executed once.
OK, thanks for the explanation. It's not wraped in the example in build-aux/git-version-gen script either, but for some reason pkg upstreams are doing it widely. I have already fixed some pkgs in Mageia Cauldron (the development version of Mageia Linux) not building because of this, and I don't know how many more I need to fix. We are autobuilding all pkgs every now and then to see the breakages.
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Description: OpenPGP-allekirjoitus
