Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Paul Eggert
On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: We*could* add a special case in AC_INIT where, if any of the third, fourth, or fifth arguments contain the literal strings `AC_PACKAGE_NAME` or `AC_PACKAGE_VERSION`, those are replaced with the values of the first and second argument, respectively. This

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:15:41 -0400 Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler wrote: > > On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > > > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2020-10-21, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler wrote: >> Note: the change you report is introduced by Zack's fix for related >> AC_INIT quoting regressions. This patch is not included in 2.69c (or >> even on git master), but does seem to be applied by the Gento

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not. ... > > $ cat configure.ac > > AC_INIT([The Glorious