Re: AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND incorrect on MacOS X: how to fix?

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Kyle" == Kyle F Downey <address@hidden> writes:

Kyle> AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND inserts this shell fragment:

Kyle> am_aux_dir=`CDPATH=:; cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd`

Kyle> which does not work properly on MacOS X 10.1. It improperly
Kyle> inserts a newline at the end of the value. This trickles down to
Kyle> config.status, where it results in a newline appearing in the
Kyle> sed script fragment for symbols like ACLOCAL and AM_TAR, which
Kyle> breaks sed.

Kyle> 1) for autoconf 2.52, is there any work-around in configure.in
Kyle> that will allow you to override this value?  

Remov CDPATH=:; from your Automake macros.  Or override this silly
definition of AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND at the top of configure.ac:

AC_DEFUN([AM_AUX_DIR_EXPAND], 
[# expand $ac_aux_dir to an absolute path
am_aux_dir=`cd $ac_aux_dir && pwd`
])

and that's all.