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Re: autoconf bug?
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: autoconf bug? |
Date: |
09 Feb 2001 15:48:03 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) |
Tomas Berndtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Tomas Berndtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > My autoconf version is 2.13. m4 is GNU m4 1.4.
> > >
> > > I have the following in my configure.in:
> > >
> > > AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dlopen, , AC_CHECK_LIB(dl,dlopen, ,
> > > [AC_MSG_ERROR([
> > > *** Zen does not function properly without dlopen, sorry.])]))
> >
> > As said by Alexandre, this is incorrect, underquoted. But even quoted
> > 2.13 fails. Yep, that's a bug in 2.13, which was vastly mixing
> > overquotation, and underquotation. CVS Autoconf is fixed.
>
> Ok, thanks. Do you know if a new release is due soon?
No idea.
> If not, maybe you could point me to where the actual fix was, so I
> can send it to Debian's maintainer?
Impossible, zillions of ramifications in the whole code. If I were
you, I'd drop out politeness, and especially the comma before your
politeness: I highly suspect that
> > > AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dlopen, , AC_CHECK_LIB(dl,dlopen, ,
> > > [AC_MSG_ERROR([
> > > *** Zen does not function properly without dlopen.])]))
will work.