[Daniel Schepler <address@hidden>] Bug#167503: autoconf: AC_MSG_WARN with #define inside fails

[Ben Pfaff]

I received the following bug report against the Debian package
for Autoconf 2.54.  I'm a bit stumped, so I'm forwarding it to
the list without further commentary.

Thanks,

Ben.

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Subject: Bug#167503: autoconf: AC_MSG_WARN with #define inside fails 
Reply-To: Daniel Schepler <address@hidden>, address@hidden
X-Debian-PR-Message: report 167503
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
From: Daniel Schepler <address@hidden>

Package: autoconf
Version: 2.54-2
Severity: normal

This is a bug I ran into while trying to update ddd to compile with
newer autotools.  A short test case is:

AC_INIT(foo.c)
AC_MSG_WARN([Please #define SIGHANDLERARGS in config.h])

The resulting configure script aborts with the error:

./configure: line 1152: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./configure: line 1152: `{ echo "$as_me:$LINENO: WARNING: Please #define 
SIGHANDLERARGS in config.h" >&m4_default([AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD], [AS_MESSAGE_FD])'

Removing the # from the string works around this bug.

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux frobnitz 2.4.19 #2 Sun Aug 18 15:52:57 PDT 2002 i686 
unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages autoconf depends on:
ii  debianutils    1.16.7         Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian
ii  m4             1.4-14         a macro processing language
ii  perl           5.8.0-13       Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report

-- 
Daniel Schepler              "Please don't disillusion me.  I
address@hidden    haven't had breakfast yet."
                                 -- Orson Scott Card

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