Re: Autoconf 2.54b released

[Ralf Corsepius]

Am Mon, 2002-10-28 um 11.47 schrieb Akim Demaille:
> 
> The Autoconf team -- Akim, Alexandre, Jim, Paul, and Tom -- is happy
> to annonce the second beta of forthcoming Autoconf 2.55.  Download,
> compile, install, torture, and enjoy!
> 
> 
>   - Why should I upgrade from 2.54?
> 
> A few bug fixes, improved portability, no known incompatibility with
> 2.53 and 2.54, forthcoming Gettext release might require 2.54.

Incompatibilities? 

AFAIS, more than one: The tarball below demonstrates some of them and a
bug:

# autoreconf -f
autoreconf -f
configure.ac:12: warning: back quotes and double quotes must not be
escaped in: $as_me:$LINENO: error: invalid value passed to
--enable-foo=\"a b c\"
configure.ac:12: warning: back quotes and double quotes must not be
escaped in: $as_me: error: invalid value passed to --enable-foo=\"a b
c\"
configure.ac:12: warning: back quotes and double quotes must not be
escaped in: $as_me:$LINENO: error: invalid value passed to
--enable-foo=\"a b c\"
configure.ac:12: warning: back quotes and double quotes must not be
escaped in: $as_me: error: invalid value passed to --enable-foo=\"a b
c\"

Issues: 
1. The error messages are broken ($as_me, $LINENO)

2. The topic it complains about is using \" in AC_HELP_STRING. 
There had been times, where this had been necessary to prevent autoconf
from removing '"'-quotes in AC_HELP_STRING. 
=> incompatibility to previous versions of autoconf-2.5x
Worse: Using AM_PROG_LIBTOOL apparently triggers this issue, too.

3. Unlike previous versions of autoconf-2.5x, autoconf-2.54 produces
automate.cache directories (Instead of autom4te.cache as previous
versions did). Why this change?

Ralf

autobug-2.54b.1.tar.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data