Re: Bug in AC_LIBOBJ, and autoconf 2.59

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

| Hi,
| There is a small problem with the AC_LIBOBJ function in autoconf, take
| the following snippet, and give it to autoconf.
| 
| ,----[ configure.ac ]
| | AC_INIT
| | AC_LIBOBJ(qux)
| `----
[...]
| ,----
| | ./configure: line 1221: syntax error near unexpected token `"*'
| | ./configure: line 1221: `  *" qux.$ac_objext "*'
| `----
| 
| What is the point of the spaces? They don't seem to serve any useful
| purpose; and infact seem to be invalid shell script code.

Which shell and system are you using?

The spaces ensure that the code matches a full filename in
$LIBOBJS, not part of another one (without them AC_LIBOBJ(qux)
would not add qux.o to LIBOBJS if it already contained ztqux.o
or qux.out.o).

I've also noted that $ac_objext is undefined in your example.
What happens if you call AC_PROG_CC before AC_LIBOBJ?
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz