On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 1:50 PM Ghassan Sarrouh <gsarr...@yorku.ca> wrote:
>
> I’m trying to install GNU Autoconf 2.69 but it failed the “>> make check”
> step, after running “>> make” but prior to running “>> make install”. I have
> attached the testsuite.log file, as per the Error 503 instructions. Please
> reply to this email account as soon as possible with any available remedy so
> that I may install software for which Autoconf is a necessary dependency.
This is a known bug in Autoconf 2.69. It only affects the `autoscan`
utility. If you do not need `autoscan` you can go ahead and use the
rest of the software as is. If you do need `autoscan`, apply the
appended patch.
zw
--- autoconf-2.69.orig/bin/autoscan.in
+++ autoconf-2.69/bin/autoscan.in
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
# @configure_input@
# autoscan - Create configure.scan (a preliminary configure.ac) for a package.
-# Copyright (C) 1994, 1999-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1994, 1999-2012, 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ sub scan_sh_file ($)
{
# Strip out comments and variable references.
s/#.*//;
- s/\${[^\}]*}//g;
+ s/\$\{[^\}]*}//g;
s/@[^@]*@//g;
# Tokens in the code.
