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config.status endless loop
From: |
Peter Eisentraut |
Subject: |
config.status endless loop |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Sep 2002 18:35:51 +0200 (CEST) |
When a substitution variable FOO contains the string @FOO@, config.status
runs forever. Example:
$ cat configure.ac
AC_INIT
FOO='@FOO@'
AC_SUBST(FOO)
AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile)
AC_OUTPUT
$ cat Makefile.in
FOO = @FOO@
$ ./configure
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
[hangs]
Of course, such a situation seems highly unusual, but I write because it
happened to me today in a real application.
Looking at the code, changing
s,@FOO@,@FOO@,;t t
to
s,@FOO@,@FOO@,g
would work, but I'm sure there are performance implications.
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