Hello James, * James Willenbring wrote on Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:51:18AM CEST: > > I am attempting to move the Trilinos project from Automake 1.8.2 to 1.10. I > am having trouble with variables that span multiple lines. Since some of > the variables that we commonly use can have hundreds of characters, it is > common to use newline characters to break them up. > > That has always worked for us in the past. Now I get a warning during configure: > > configure: WARNING: Cache variable ac_cv_env_LIBS_value contains a newline.
But this is only a warning (and a legitimate one at that, because the newlines are not correctly preserved in the config.cache file if used). > Then make fails quickly: > > Makefile:161: *** missing separator. Stop. If the failure comes from a substituted value with newlines, then I wonder how that could have worked before: Autoconf before 2.60 wasn't able to deal with newlines in substituted values. > Is there a solution for this problem, other than passing long lines to configure? Please post a pointer to the project sources, or, alternatively, its configure.ac and the toplevel Makefile.am file. Thanks. Cheers, Ralf
