Re: autoconf building useless configure script on Mac OS X

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Chris Inacio wrote on Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:27:16PM CEST:
> On 10/1/07, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Thanks.  No need to post further files.  Please try this patch
> > that fixes a quoting error.
> Thank you.  Can you tell me how you found it?  I would like to have a
> method of not running into this again.

Hmm, I use an editor that highlights matching parentheses and brackets,
and search for mismatches; also for macros that call other macros in
their arguments but do not []-quote the arguments.  In your case, it
helped to look at the diff of the generated configure scripts -- some
missing precious variables came from the broken snippet.

All this doesn't explain yet, however, why it worked for you on one
system but not another.  I don't know what caused this.

Cheers,
Ralf