ok, i still don't completely understand where that regex comes from, but i think it's parsing AC_CONFIG_FILES that gives the problem.
it turns out that any long AC_OUTPUT() line gives this error. i've attached a test case. - dave On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:31:40AM -0800, Dave Benson wrote: > i tried both 1.7.1 as downloaded from ftp.gnu.org, > and also the 1.7.1 debian package for the "testing" distribution. > > - dave > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:27:37AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote: > > Try 1.7.1 > > > > Earnie > > > > Dave Benson wrote: > > > hello... > > > > > > i'm trying to upgrade a project to use automake-1.7 > > > and i'm getting the following error(s): > > > > > > /tmp/am4tf8PSRs/traces.m4:822: /usr/bin/m4: Error matching regular expression `^ >*\(.*\) *$' > > > Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.7 line 5077, ><GEN0> line 283. > > > > > > clearly the second is caused by the first.. but where is traces.m4 coming from? > > > or, how can i make the tmp-dir not be deleted? > > > > > > also: what's going wrong in the first place? that message is pretty vague... > > > > > > - dave > > > > > > > > > > -- --
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