Re: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

2006-06-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's the patch I installed. Thanks for installing that. I'll reassign the Debian bug to the documentation package. [...] However, let me point out a spelling error: > +Autocoonf macros often use the @command{set} command to update ^ -- B

Re: Bug#372179: marked as done (autoconf: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@)

2006-06-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Getting bug-autoconf into play: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372241 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372179 > Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 20:09:30 +0200 > From: Julien Danjou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: apr-util: FTBFS: cannot stat `./debian

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread William S Fulton
Stepan Kasal wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:38:43PM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: >> However, current and older releases of SWIG won't configure with the new >> autoconf. Is that really intended? > > if the user regenerates the configure script, then yes. > > But released tarbal

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:38:43PM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > However, current and older releases of SWIG won't configure with the new > autoconf. Is that really intended? if the user regenerates the configure script, then yes. But released tarballs usually do not require that Autoc

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 09:45:05PM +0100, William S Fulton wrote: > @top_builddir@ used to expand to ../../../ > now it expands to ../../.. > Parts of our Makefiles were relying on the trailing slash, so they don't > work with this version of autoconf. Is this change also intentional? yes,

Re: AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Eggert
Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the long term, I suspect that the Autoconf macros in the > apr-util package should be fixed, and that autoconf-doc should > document that $@ may be changed by some macros. I've done the latter by installing the patch at the end of this message into Autoc

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Eggert
William S Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > @top_builddir@ used to expand to ../../../ > now it expands to ../../.. > Parts of our Makefiles were relying on the trailing slash, so they don't > work with this version of autoconf. Is this change also intentional? I'm afraid that's true as well.

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread Paul Eggert
William S Fulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, current and older releases of SWIG won't configure with the new > autoconf. Is that really intended? I'm afraid so. From the NEWS file: * Some directory variables have been added, and others adjusted to changes in the GNU Coding Standard

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread William S Fulton
Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d is now available. > > This is a beta release, intended to be largely identical to 2.60, > to be released very soon, if no unexpected issues turn up. So test it > now, use it with your code, and report any remaining issues, please! > > T

Re: GNU Autoconf test version 2.59d available

2006-06-14 Thread William S Fulton
This version of autoconf breaks our configure.in script. This is what we have... configure.in: AC_ARG_WITH(swiglibdir,[ --with-swiglibdir=DIR Put SWIG system-independent libraries into DIR.], [swig_lib="$withval"], [swig_lib="${datadir}/swig/${PACKAGE_VERSION}"]) AC_SUBST(swig_lib) AC_DEFINE

AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM overwrites $@

2006-06-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
I've seen a flurry of Debian BTS emails around this bug, but none of them have made it clear to me what I should do about it. In the long term, I suspect that the Autoconf macros in the apr-util package should be fixed, and that autoconf-doc should document that $@ may be changed by some macros.