* Frank Küster wrote on Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:51:57AM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > But even after fixing this, tetex-bin seems to be using some obscure and > >> > obsolete feature of autoconf 2.13 that replaces "ac_include $file" in > >> > Makefile.in with the contents of that file in the output Makefile.
Very funny. That "ac_include" feature wasn't even in plain Autoconf 2.13, but only in the locally-modified copy of it, see texk/etc/autoconf. But non-ancient Automake has an 'include' feature that should get you mostly-equivalent functionality, I think. This issue: > ./configure: line 20631: syntax error: unexpected end of file is caused by underquoted macro usage in web2c/withenable.ac. While at it, let's get rid of the changequote there as well, it's evil, too. So writing the following like this: AC_ARG_WITH([editor], [ --with-editor=CMD invoke CMD from the e option @<:@vi +%d %s@:>@], [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(EDITOR, "$with_editor") ]) AC_ARG_ENABLE([ipc], [ --enable-ipc enable TeX's --ipc option, i.e., pipe to a program], [if test "x$enableval" = xyes; then AC_DEFINE(IPC) # -lsocket is needed on Solaris, at least. Maybe -lnsl on SCO, too? # See ac_path_xtra. AC_CHECK_FUNC(connect) if test x$ac_cv_func_connect = xno; then AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, connect, socketlibs="-lsocket $socketlibs") fi fi ]) AC_SUBST(socketlibs) should get you going. The weird replacements for brackets are called quadrigraphs in the Autoconf manual (and 2.60 will count them correctly in AC_HELP_STRING), and the EOF came from a comma in the third argument to AC_ARG_ENABLE above. It makes for another argument actually.. If you want to test this easily without changing too much other code, do this: rm -rf autom4te.cache; autoconf && ./configure You need to remove the cache because autoconf does not know about "sinclude". To make it aware of the dependency to web2c/withenable.ac and the other files sincluded from configure.in, use m4_sinclude([web2c/withenable.ac]) instead. More generally, almost all native m4 commands are prefixed with 'm4_' in Autoconf-2.50+ (except for dnl). The library dependency issue was solved before, right (using "objdump -p" rather than ldd to find direct dependencies showed not-too-much)? Hope that helps. Please Cc: for replies. Cheers, Ralf