On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 19:28:26 +0100, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > sed -i -e '/^_PKG_TEXT/s/dnl/[]dnl/' \ > > -e '/^To get/s/dnl/[]dnl/' pkg.m4 > > > > will do it, for those who dislike patching. The simple "change > > '])dnl'" version I tried also changed other lines. > > It turns out that this was actually a bug in Autoconf, not in pkg-config. > See http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-09/msg00040.html and > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/autoconf.git/commit/?id=f6030a3204a9b87e9b346e6eff4ce1117382fc86 > for the upstream details. > Odd, I thought the match that google found was reported to autoconf, and deemed to be a pkg-config issue. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf/2010-07/msg00031.html
> Sadly, I caught this too late for 6.7, oh well! > > Here's the sed that'll achieve the same as the upstream fix (minus their > test suite addition, of course): > > sed -i -e 's/])m4_defun/[]&/' lib/m4sugar/m4sugar.m4 > > Ken, what package was it you were updating that tickled this bug? I'll > try to reproduce and confirm the fix before commiting this one to the book. > nfs-utils-1.2.2 : there is a patch from gentoo - http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/nfs-utils/nfs-utils-1.2.2-make_libpcap_optional-1.patch which has an explanation of the required autofoo. If you get a successful completion, with an updated 'configure' script, the alternative fix has worked. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
