URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?111396>
Summary: autoheader check needs to handle ancient header
Group: Autoconf
Submitter: thesamesam
Submitted: Sat 21 Mar 2026 09:28:59 PM UTC
Priority: 5 - Unprioritized
Severity: 3 - Normal
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Date: Sat 21 Mar 2026 09:28:59 PM UTC By: Sam James <thesamesam>
We had some reports w/ autoconf-2.73 of maintainer mode being triggered after
running autoconf + autoheader, like in https://bugs.gentoo.org/971412.
aview's config.h.in has:
/* config.h.in. Generated automatically from configure.in by autoheader. */
while the regex in autoheader is:
&& $firstline !~ /^\/\* .*\. Generated from .* by autoheader\.
\*\//
i.e. missing 'automatically'. 'automatically' was dropped back in 2001:
commit e4ac3572288a3f24ff9915eb7a7d96159f9fa087
Author: Akim Demaille <[email protected]> [undefined N]
Date: Fri Oct 19 17:34:53 2001 +0000
Changing the regex to jam in 'automatically' to quickly test works, I didn't
yet try a proper replacement.
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