-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Thomas Klausner on 7/20/2007 5:05 PM: > Hi! > > After the m4 update in pkgsrc there have been reports of breakage in > packages where autoconf is run. In pkgsrc this affects e.g. mng, > firefox, thunderbird and others.
Thanks for the report. I have re-bootstrapped m4 1.4.10 with itself, and didn't have any problems on my cygwin platform with the resulting configure script, so either the m4 configure.ac is simpler than mng's, or m4 1.4.10 is tickling a platform-specific bug. Hopefully you can help us narrow in on the problem. > > In the case of mng, the output looks like this: > # /bin/rm -f configure.in && /bin/ln -sf makefiles/configure.in .; /bin/rm -f > Makefile.am && /bin/ln -sf makefiles/Makefile.am .; aclocal; > /usr/pkg/bin/libtoolize --automake; automake -a --foreign -i; autoconf > configure.in:9: installing `./missing' > configure.in:9: installing `./install-sh' > # ./configure > # > > That's the complete(!) configure output. Hmm, maybe output is getting skipped, leaving out large chunks of what is supposed to form the final configure. Offhand, one thing in NEWS that jumps out at me as a potential cause would be the change in diversion handling to try to allow diversions larger than 512k again. > > I'll attach the generated configure script. The attached configure file was well formed (at least according to 'bash - -n ./configure'). With a quick glance, I could not tell much more than that with the script in isolation (and it may be a while before I would have time to play with downloading libmng to try harder), so action on your end can speed things up a bit. I'm assuming that the only variable you changed was whether you used m4 1.4.9 vs. 1.4.10? Could you also attach a diff between the configure scripts generated by the two versions, so that we can narrow down on what in the source to the configure script may have tickled a difference? Also, what platform is this on (both OS and processor type)? Could you also post the results of running 'make -k check' on the m4 1.4.10 testsuite? (Even if this was the NetBSD-4.99.23/amd64 of your previous message, at least rerun with make -k so that we can see the results of the rest of the testsuite.) - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGoX+Y84KuGfSFAYARAjT+AJ9XPXPw0kFXkkN5AhlfXlja5S/rNwCeKqsA Y610uLK3rpIg5ovyI6Iwi3M= =ZE3e -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-m4 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-m4
