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Package: autoconf
Version: 2.59.cvs.2006.05.13-1
Severity: important
Newer autoconf versions seem to use |#_!!_#| as an internal separator
during the AC_OUTPUT phase; this is supposed to be sedded away again at
the very end, but for some reason it doesn't; see for instance #373953,
where it's creeping into PREFIX and whatnot.
I've verified that this doesn't happen in 2.59a-9; it surfaced in the
first CVS version in the archive (2.59.cvs.2006.05.13-1).
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Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
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ii m4 1.4.4-1 a macro processing language
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ii automake1.4 [automaken] 1:1.4-p6-10 A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii automake1.7 [automaken] 1.7.9-8 A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii automake1.8 [automaken] 1.8.5-4 A tool for generating GNU Standard
ii automake1.9 [automaken] 1.9.6-4 A tool for generating GNU Standard
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* Steinar H. Gunderson wrote on Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 04:26:24PM CEST:
>
> I checked this, and it's not a bug in autoconf, IMO.
>
> mkconfig.rb parses config.status for s,,, lines, duplicating them to create
> another configuration file, but it doesn't understand the |#_!!_#| trick.
> I simply made it sed it away itself, and the package was fixed.
Which is just another hack on top of the existing hacks, but oh well, I
guess that's ok for a NMU.
> Decide for yourself if you want to close this as "not a bug", or if you
> actually think it should be changed back in autoconf.
Definitely not a bug.
It would be nice if ruby upstream could fix this and remove usage of
Autoconf internals. Otherwise you'll keep having to "fix" this again
and again...
Cheers,
Ralf
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