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Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf


From: Akim Demaille
Subject: Re: Two testsuite failure in CVS autoconf
Date: 02 Feb 2001 16:07:03 +0100
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Nicolas Joly <address@hidden> writes:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:37:27AM +0100, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> > 
> > I checked CVS autoconf today on my Tru64 v5.1 machine, and found 2 new
> > failures : AC_TRY_*, AC_CHECK_SIZEOF.
> > 
> > I got an infinite loop for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF test. I will investigate
> > further ...
> 
> The problem seems to be located in the AC_TRY_COMMAND definition.
> 
> AC_DEFUN([AC_TRY_COMMAND],
> [{ ac_try='$1'; _AC_EVAL([$ac_try]); }])
> 
> Reverting to the old one restore normal behaviour.
> 
> AC_DEFUN([AC_TRY_COMMAND],
> [_AC_EVAL([$1])])

Thanks for locating the problem.  Unfortunately using directly
_AC_EVAL is wrong, as the new Cat in the Hat test tries to
demonstrate.  The answer is elsewhere ;)



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