Thanks for figuring this out, Cristophe! Fortunately, I found another PPA which has backported autoconf 2.69 to precise [1], so I've added it as a dependency to mine. We'll see how the next automatic build goes!
Doug [1] https://launchpad.net/~dns/+archive/ubuntu/gnu ________________________________________ From: Christophe CURIS [christophe.cu...@free.fr] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 1:43 PM To: Window Maker Devel Subject: [PATCH 1/1] configure: require a minimum version for Autoconf to avoid wrong generation As found by Douglas Torrance, when the 'configure' script is generated using v2.68 of autoconf then it gets wrongly generated due to a regression in the handling of names in AS_VAR_PUSHDEF, and crashes with this kind of sibylline messages: checking CFLAGS for -Wtrampolines... ./configure: line 11916: wm_cv_c_check_compopt_Werror_trampolines=no, unknown: command not found This patch adds a check on autoconf version to ensure the problem will get caught as soon as possible. Signed-off-by: Christophe CURIS <christophe.cu...@free.fr> --- configure.ac | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index c9ed50c..ad4bef6 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -8,7 +8,14 @@ dnl autoconf dnl libtoolize --force --automake dnl automake -a --gnu --include-deps dnl + + +dnl Due to a bug in Autoconf 2.68 (apparently a regression), we need at least +dnl version 2.68b which includes this patch: +dnl http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commit;h=2b0d95faef68d7ed7c08b0edb9ff1c38728376fa dnl +dnl Because the 2.69 was released only a few month later, let's just ask for it +AC_PREREQ([2.69]) AC_INIT(WindowMaker, 0.95.6, , WindowMaker, http://www.windowmaker.org/) -- 2.1.3 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org. -- To unsubscribe, send mail to wmaker-dev-unsubscr...@lists.windowmaker.org.
