Re: error 'traces.m4' running automake-1.7

[Dave Benson]

ok, i still don't completely understand where that regex comes from,
but i think it's parsing AC_CONFIG_FILES that gives the problem.

it turns out that any long AC_OUTPUT() line gives this error.

i've attached a test case.

- dave

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 06:31:40AM -0800, Dave Benson wrote:
> i tried both 1.7.1 as downloaded from ftp.gnu.org,
> and also the 1.7.1 debian package for the "testing" distribution.
> 
> - dave
> 
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:27:37AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> > Try 1.7.1
> > 
> > Earnie
> > 
> > Dave Benson wrote:
> > > hello...
> > > 
> > > i'm trying to upgrade a project to use automake-1.7
> > > and i'm getting the following error(s):
> > > 
> > > /tmp/am4tf8PSRs/traces.m4:822: /usr/bin/m4: Error matching regular 
> > > expression `^ *\(.*\) *$'
> > > Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/local/bin/automake-1.7 line 
> > > 5077, <GEN0> line 283.
> > > 
> > > clearly the second is caused by the first.. but where is traces.m4 coming 
> > > from?
> > > or, how can i make the tmp-dir not be deleted?
> > > 
> > > also:  what's going wrong in the first place?  that message is pretty 
> > > vague...
> > > 
> > > - dave
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
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