Re: Problem with --version after compiling autoconf

2018-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/30/2018 03:24 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote: Hi Eric, I ran 'make check' and got the following : autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg' ../bin/autom4te -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language=autotest -I . -I . suite.at -o ./testsuite.tmp The command looks r

Re: Problem with --version after compiling autoconf

2018-05-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/30/2018 07:23 AM, Eric Blake wrote: which in turn is expanding this macro before calling m4's eval with invalid input: m4_bpatsubst(m4_bpatsubst(m4_translit(0,$1, [.-], [,,]),]dnl m4_dquote(m4_dquote(m4_defn([m4_cr_Letters])))[[+],   [+1,-1,[0r36:\&]]), [,0], [,[0r10

Re: Problem with --version after compiling autoconf

2018-05-30 Thread Paul Eggert
On 05/30/2018 05:49 AM, Eric Blake wrote: more likely, all the way back to Nov 1993 when Francois Pinard introduced 0rNNN syntax into m4 1.1 (according to NEWS), although I cannot locate a tarball or version control of m4 that old. Some old GNU tarballs can be find at funet (Linux's first dist