I think my issue is a dup of http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-07/msg00009.html, but I figured I'd report it anyway on the off chance that it's not.
I reduced my problem to a trivial configure.ac script that mainly calls AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([void *]). It fails in autoreconf -ivf. Shell output is worth a 1,000 words: ----- $ ls -l total 8 drwxrwxr-x 4 jsquyres staff 136 Jul 22 09:28 ac266-install/ drwxr-xr-x 5 jsquyres staff 170 Jul 22 09:28 autom4te.cache/ -rw-r--r-- 1 jsquyres staff 70 Jul 22 09:24 configure.ac $ ./ac266-install/bin/autoconf --version autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.66 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT([test], [123], [my_url]) AC_PROG_CC AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([void *]) $ ./ac266-install/bin/autoreconf -ivf autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal --force configure.ac:3: error: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF: requires literal arguments ../../lib/autoconf/types.m4:765: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF is expanded from... configure.ac:3: the top level autom4te: /opt/local/bin/gm4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: /Users/jsquyres/tmp/bogus/ac266-install/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 $ ----- -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/
