Hello autoconfers. When doing a "make check" from the autoconf master branch (v2.68-95-ge0cb97a), the mentioned test fails, with this log:
$ cat tests/testsuite.dir/048/testsuite.log # -*- compilation -*- 48. m4sugar.at:527: testing m4_require: nested ... ./m4sugar.at:531: autom4te --language=m4sugar script.4s -o script -o- ./m4sugar.at:551: autom4te --language=m4sugar script.4s -o script -o- ./m4sugar.at:573: autom4te --language=m4sugar script.4s -o script -o- ./m4sugar.at:597: autom4te --language=m4sugar script.4s -o script -o- stderr: script.4s:15: warning: m4_require: `a' was expanded before it was required script.4s:15: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Expanded-Before-Required script.4s:5: b is expanded from... script.4s:6: c is expanded from... script.4s:14: outer is expanded from... script.4s:15: the top level ./m4sugar.at:597: sed 's/^[^:]*m4[-.ex0-9]*: *\([^:]*:\) *\([0-9][0-9]*: \)/m4:\1\2/ s/^\([^:]*:\) *\([0-9][0-9]*:\)[^:]*m4[-.ex0-9]*: /m4:\1\2 / s/: C\(annot open \)\([^`:]*\):/: c\1`\2'\'':/ s/: include:\( cannot open\)/:\1/ s/^autom4te: [^ ]*m4[.ex]* /autom4te: m4 / s/ (E[A-Z]*)$// ' stderr >&2 --- - 2011-10-11 12:50:18.479591757 +0200 +++ /home/stefano/src/autoconf/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/48/stderr 2011-10-11 12:50:18.000000000 +0200 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ script.4s:15: warning: m4_require: `a' was expanded before it was required +script.4s:15: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Expanded-Before-Required script.4s:5: b is expanded from... script.4s:6: c is expanded from... script.4s:14: outer is expanded from... 48. m4sugar.at:527: 48. m4_require: nested (m4sugar.at:527): FAILED (m4sugar.at:597) This seems like a spurious error, so I guess you won't need more details; but if you do, just let me know! Regards, Stefano