about documentation of AC_CHECK_HEADERS

2009-03-14 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, in the manual, one can read in http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Generic-Headers "For each given system header file header-file in the blank-separated argument list that exists, define HAVE_header-file (in all capitals). If action-if-found is given, it is additi

bootstrapping Autoconf with 2.63

2009-03-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello bug-autoconf readers, when I try to run Cygwin's /usr/bin/autoconf (2.63) on the git Autoconf tree, I get approximately \infty many instances of this warning: | /usr/bin/m4:configure.ac:23: Warning: m4_eval: bad expression (bad input): + _m4_bmatch_( That's not good. git Autoconf should

Re: about documentation of AC_CHECK_HEADERS

2009-03-14 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Vincent Torri wrote: Hey, in the manual, one can read in http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf.html#Generic-Headers "For each given system header file header-file in the blank-separated argument list that exists, define HAVE_header-file (in all capital

Re: about documentation of AC_CHECK_HEADERS

2009-03-14 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello Vincent, thanks for the report. * Vincent Torri wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:51:21PM CET: > more precisely, if foo.h exists and bar.h does not: > > 1) with: > > AC_CHECK_HEADERS([foo.h bar.h], [have_headers="yes"], [have_headers="no"]) > > have_headers value is "no" > > 2) with: > > hav

Re: about documentation of AC_CHECK_HEADERS

2009-03-14 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Hello Vincent, thanks for the report. * Vincent Torri wrote on Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 05:51:21PM CET: more precisely, if foo.h exists and bar.h does not: 1) with: AC_CHECK_HEADERS([foo.h bar.h], [have_headers="yes"], [have_headers="no"]) have_hea

resync auto{make,m4te} perl modules?

2009-03-14 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralf's recent work on adding silent-rules to automake modified the lib/Automake/ChannelDefs.pm file on branch je-silent. This file used to by synchronized into autoconf's lib/Autom4te (module difference in the package name); is this still something we