Re: Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD
I sent this yesterday, but it didn't appear on the mailing list archives, so I'm trying again now. Pushing it, thanks. Paolo
Re: Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paolo Bonzini on 11/27/2009 3:52 AM: I sent this yesterday, but it didn't appear on the mailing list archives, so I'm trying again now. Pushing it, thanks. Thanks for the patch. We should also bump the serial number in m4/m4.m4 to track that it is a fix. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake e...@byu.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksPzcgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCNgACfebU0tApSYa1Xksi6GcDdsKaT AfEAoNOV+UmiB+T1skLUcXQheG307SjS =9o6o -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD
On 11/27/2009 02:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Paolo Bonzini on 11/27/2009 3:52 AM: I sent this yesterday, but it didn't appear on the mailing list archives, so I'm trying again now. Pushing it, thanks. Thanks for the patch. We should also bump the serial number in m4/m4.m4 to track that it is a fix. Right, done. Paolo
Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD
Hi,
The configure script of autoconf 2.64/2.65/HEAD fails to detect a
suitable m4 on my system. It aborts with
autoconf-2.65 0 $ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... no
checking for characters that cannot appear in file names... none
checking whether directories can have trailing spaces... yes
checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error:
no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.
GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.13 is recommended
I have GNU M4 1.4.13. The problem is that I'm using dash for /bin/sh
(and my dash supports LINENO so configure doesn't silently use bash
instead), and the m4 detection doesn't work when echo \1 prints ^A.
With the attached obvious patch, configure passes, and there's no
problem further on.
diff --git a/m4/m4.m4 b/m4/m4.m4
index 096fb28..be86031 100644
--- a/m4/m4.m4
+++ b/m4/m4.m4
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK([M4], [m4 gm4 gnum4],
ac_snippet=change'quote(,)in''dir(if''def,mac,bug)'
ac_snippet=${ac_snippet}pat'subst(a,\(b\)\|\(a\),\1)d'nl
test -z `$ac_path_M4 -F conftest.m4f /dev/null 21` \
- test -z `echo $ac_snippet | $ac_path_M4 --trace=mac 21` \
+ test -z `AS_ECHO([$ac_snippet]) | $ac_path_M4 --trace=mac 21` \
test -f conftest.m4f \
ac_cv_path_M4=$ac_path_M4 ac_path_M4_found=:
rm -f conftest.m4f],
Non-portable m4 check in autoconf 2.64, 2.65, HEAD
Hi,
The configure script of autoconf 2.64/2.65/HEAD fails to detect a
suitable m4 on my system. It aborts with
autoconf-2.65 0 $ ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... no
checking for characters that cannot appear in file names... none
checking whether directories can have trailing spaces... yes
checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr
checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error:
no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH.
GNU M4 1.4.6 or later is required; 1.4.13 is recommended
I have GNU M4 1.4.13. The problem is that I'm using dash for /bin/sh
(and my dash supports LINENO so configure doesn't silently use bash
instead), and the m4 detection doesn't work when echo \1 prints ^A.
With the attached obvious patch, configure passes, and there's no
problem further on.
I sent this yesterday, but it didn't appear on the mailing list archives,
so I'm trying again now.
diff --git a/m4/m4.m4 b/m4/m4.m4
index 096fb28..be86031 100644
--- a/m4/m4.m4
+++ b/m4/m4.m4
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK([M4], [m4 gm4 gnum4],
ac_snippet=change'quote(,)in''dir(if''def,mac,bug)'
ac_snippet=${ac_snippet}pat'subst(a,\(b\)\|\(a\),\1)d'nl
test -z `$ac_path_M4 -F conftest.m4f /dev/null 21` \
- test -z `echo $ac_snippet | $ac_path_M4 --trace=mac 21` \
+ test -z `AS_ECHO([$ac_snippet]) | $ac_path_M4 --trace=mac 21` \
test -f conftest.m4f \
ac_cv_path_M4=$ac_path_M4 ac_path_M4_found=:
rm -f conftest.m4f],
