Re: What does (did?) it mean when aclocal exits with code 63?

2023-12-22 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Zack, *automake* can exit with code 63 under some circumstances, but it really looks like aclocal never will. Agreed. I searched for "63" in automake distributions back to 1.11.3, as well as the current sources, and no trace of any 63's in aclocal, only in automake. Thus I suspect that

What does (did?) it mean when aclocal exits with code 63?

2023-12-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
One of Autoconf's regression tests includes: # If Autoconf is too old, or the user has turned caching off, skip: AT_CHECK([aclocal || { ret=$?; test $ret -eq 63 && ret=77; exit $ret; }], [], [], [ignore]) The effect is to skip the rest of the test if aclocal's exit status is 63. This cod