Sorry for the delay in replying; my home PC suffered a minor heat
stroke and will be out of action for a while :-)
On 12 May 2001 15:36:53 +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Tim> The only call is
>
> Tim> gcc_AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, --version, [GNU
> Tim> texinfo.* \([0-9][0-9.]*\)], [4.*])
>
> Hm, looks good.
>
> Tim> This would put the texinfo pattern inside the special << >>
> Tim> quotes, which might be what confused autoconf (though I'm hardly
> Tim> an expert in such things).
>
> Is it autoconf or autoheader which is lost?
For both, m4 gets the recursion header, though for autoheader, this
is buried in traces.sh.
> They don't use aclocal?
Nope.
> ac_tr_decl=HAVE_DECL_`echo $ac_func | tr 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
>'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'`
> changequote([, ])dnl
>
> You should also get rid of this one.
This was intended as a _minimal_ patch to allow autoheader & autoconf to
run without errors. Besides, the changequote here does no harm, and can
even serve as a reminder should someone decide to use character classes
again.
>
> Nice patch, but I don't think it works. I'd be surprised if you
> actually have the #undef templates in config.h.in since you pass an sh
> var, which is opaque to autoheader. You need `static' values for
> autoheader. That's why they had the last chunk.
>
> Use
>
> -if test x = y ; then
> - AC_DEFINE(translit([HAVE_DECL_$1], [a-z], [A-Z]), 1,
> - [Define to 1 if we found this declaration otherwise define to 0.]))dnl
> -fi
>
OK - will try that.
