On Wednesday 15 September 2010, Eric Blake wrote: > [dropping all but bug-autoconf] > > On 09/15/2010 09:15 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > [adding bug-autoconf] > > > > On 09/15/2010 09:13 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote: > >> Ouch! On my Debian box, I had to build my own autoconf 2.67 from > >> sources to use with automake, since at least this chunk of the > >> debian patch: > >> > >> --- autoconf-2.67.orig/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 > >> +++ autoconf-2.67/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 > >> @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ > >> [m4_append_uniq([_AS_CLEANUP], > >> [m4_divert_text([M4SH-INIT-FN], [_AS_ERROR_PREPARE[]])])], > >> [as_fn_error m4_default([$2], [$?]) > >> "_AS_QUOTE([$1])"m4_ifval(AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD, > >> - [ "$LINENO" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])]) > >> + [ "$LINENO" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD ])]) > > > > How nice of Debian to not tell upstream about the issue :( > > Does anyone know which Debian bug this patch is supposed to > address? Wild guess: might it have been this one? <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pkg-config/2010-August/000631.html> (which has since been fixed in the pkg-config git repo, BTW). There should be a reference also on the autoconf list somewhere...
> And, is there any reason why: > > [ "$LINENO" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD[]])]) > > instead of inserting a spurious space wasn't chosen as a way to > patch things? Regards, Stefano
