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Re: gettext 0.11.2: Using autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.1


From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Subject: Re: gettext 0.11.2: Using autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.1
Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:21:02 +0200 (MET DST)

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > 'ftp://ftp.ds2.pg.gda.pl/pub/macro/SRPMS/'.
> 
> That's an awkward format for me.  I unpacked it anyway and looked at

 That's why I put raw sources as well as I wrote.  The address above is
for a reference as I'm not going to unpack packages on a regular basis.

> Most of the patches in here are relevant only to gettext; i.e. they
> should not affect other packages that use gettext, so I don't need to
> worry about them when I am (say) maintaining diffutils.

 Indeed.  Otherwise I would write to bug-autoconf as well.

> The only exception is the patch to lib-link.m4 that substitutes 
> address@hidden@'
> for `[]', but I don't see why this change is needed, as lib-link.m4
> seems to work OK for me with autoconf 2.53.

 Well, m4 complained for me:

configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `test 
"${ac_cv_lib[]Name+set}" = set': Unmatched [ or [^
configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `$ac_cv_lib[]Name': 
Unmatched [ or [^
configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `$ac_cv_lib[]Name': 
Unmatched [ or [^

probably due to a missing quotation somewhere, so I bulk-converted all
`[]' occurences to address@hidden@' as using brackets makes scripts fragile due 
to
their quoting properties. 

  Maciej

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+  Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland   +
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