Hi, > I more or less often recompile sources for certain GNU projects, and > at least three projects fail to bootstrap with the same message (only > line numbers vary). They all pull subrepos from gnulib. The problem > seems to be that the autotools generate invald configure scripts. > > texinfo: line 5904ff of configure: > for ac_arg in '' ac_prog_cc_stdc=c89 > ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89 > do > CC="$ac_save_CC $ac_arg" > if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO" > then : > ac_cv_prog_cc_c89=$ac_arg > fi > rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam > test "x$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89" != "xno" && break > done > > octave: > ../configure: line 7723: syntax error near unexpected token > `ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' > ../configure: line 7723: ` > ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' > > bison: > ./configure: line 6277: syntax error near unexpected token > `ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' > ./configure: line 6277: ` > ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' > > In both cases the corresponding configure scripts include the above invalid > code.
See [1], [2], [3]. Thanks for the report. Bruno [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-12/msg00091.html [2] https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110398 [3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2020-12/msg00191.html
