I've created a patch file for Autoconf fixing this problem. I've posted it to Autoconf but noone responded yet. Can you try it and let me know?
Martin
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/automake/2002-November/012234.html
Dave Benson wrote:
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--
Index: autom4te.in =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/bin/autom4te.in,v retrieving revision 1.77 diff -u -r1.77 autom4te.in --- autom4te.in 31 Oct 2002 08:37:20 -0000 1.77 +++ autom4te.in 22 Nov 2002 16:34:37 -0000 @@ -941,9 +941,10 @@ # Note that the second pattern is `newline, tab or space'. Don't lose # the tab! define([at_flatten], - [at_patsubst(at_patsubst(at_patsubst([[[$1]]], [\\\n]), - [[\n\t ]+], [ ]), - [^ *\(.*\) *$], [[\1]])]) + [at_patsubst(at_patsubst(at_patsubst(at_patsubst([[[[$1]]]], [\\\n]), + [[\n\t ]+], [ ]), + [ *\(.\)$],[\1]), + [^ *\(.*\)], [[\1]])]) define([at_args], [at_shift(at_shift(at_shift(at_shift(at_shift($@)))))]) define([at_at], [_$0([$1], at_args($@))])
