On Fri, 11 Nov 2022 14:56:29 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> For one reason or another this particular flag simply refuses to work
> properly with UTIL_ARG_WITH, and after numerous attempts I'm completely lost
> as to how to make it function without crashing autoconf halfway through
> before the configure script is even generated
This sounds like the typical case that happens if you inadvertently write the
name of a macro ("function") that gets expanded. Like this:
AC_DEFUN([TEST_FOO],
[
echo Debug: we are running in TEST_FOO
])
will fail to compile with a stack overflow, since the `TEST_FOO` in the debug
output will be recursively expanded with the function we're trying to expand.
(Been there, done that, has produced profanities over autoconf enough to
guarantee me a very hot place in the afterlife, before I figured that one
out...)
So check if you are trying to write a "keyword" where a substring matches some
other defined macro.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11020
