autoscan needs configure.ac to exist already

[Ben Pfaff]

The following bug was reported against the Debian packaging of
Autoconf 2.59, but I can't see how it is a Debian-specific bug,
so I am forwarding it upstream.

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Subject: Bug#233075: autoconf: autoscan needs configure.ac to exist already
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Package: autoconf
Version: 2.59-2
Severity: normal

address@hidden:~/src/biosconfig$ autoscan --verbose
autoscan: srcdir = .
cfiles: biosconfig.c cmoslow.c cmoslow.h cmosop.c cmosop.h layoutgrm.y 
layoutlex.l regexp.c regexp.h valuefile.c valuefile.h layoutgrm.c layoutgrm.h 
layoutlex.h object.h object.c layoutlex.c
makefiles: Makefile
shfiles: 

function:
alloca: regexp.c:39
error: biosconfig.c:199 biosconfig.c:240 biosconfig.c:311 biosconfig.c:331 
cmosop.c:49 cmosop.c:51 cmosop.c:177 cmosop.c:342 cmosop.c:358 layoutgrm.y:41 
layoutlex.l:144 regexp.c:41 valuefile.c:59 valuefile.c:65 valuefile.c:70 
valuefile.c:89 layoutgrm.c:146 object.c:48 object.c:50 object.c:54 object.c:79 
object.c:95 object.c:105 object.c:117 object.c:121 object.c:133 object.c:145 
object.c:149 object.c:163 object.c:175 object.c:179 object.c:194 object.c:213 
object.c:235 object.c:238 object.c:262 object.c:275 object.c:278 object.c:283 
object.c:285 layoutlex.c:2016
error_at_line: layoutlex.l:153 valuefile.c:68 layoutlex.c:2025
malloc: layoutgrm.y:40 valuefile.c:58 layoutgrm.c:145 object.c:47 object.c:78 
layoutlex.c:1956
memset: layoutlex.c:1562 layoutlex.c:1581 layoutlex.c:1898
realloc: layoutlex.c:1968
regcomp: regexp.c:101
strdup: object.c:49
strndup: biosconfig.c:117 biosconfig.c:118 valuefile.c:61 valuefile.c:63
strtol: layoutlex.l:100 layoutlex.c:839
strtoul: object.c:259

header:
alloca.h: regexp.c:20
inttypes.h: layoutlex.c:34
stddef.h: layoutgrm.c:579
stdint.h: biosconfig.c:33 cmoslow.c:22 cmoslow.h:24 cmosop.c:26 cmosop.h:27 
cmosop.h:29 object.h:24
stdlib.h: biosconfig.c:31 layoutgrm.y:27 regexp.c:22 valuefile.c:25 
layoutgrm.c:132 layoutgrm.c:219 object.c:26 layoutlex.c:22
string.h: biosconfig.c:28 layoutlex.l:26 valuefile.c:26 object.c:23 
layoutlex.c:20 layoutlex.c:464
unistd.h: layoutlex.c:523

identifier:
const: cmosop.c:199 cmosop.c:264 cmosop.c:323 cmosop.c:323 cmosop.c:351 
cmosop.c:351 cmosop.h:31 cmosop.h:33 cmosop.h:35 cmosop.h:35 cmosop.h:37 
cmosop.h:37 layoutgrm.y:30 layoutgrm.y:513 layoutlex.l:64 layoutlex.l:64 
layoutlex.l:123 layoutlex.l:123 layoutlex.l:133 regexp.c:45 regexp.c:57 
regexp.c:79 layoutgrm.c:135 layoutgrm.c:312 layoutgrm.c:347 layoutgrm.c:357 
layoutgrm.c:386 layoutgrm.c:399 layoutgrm.c:399 layoutgrm.c:415 layoutgrm.c:425 
layoutgrm.c:435 layoutgrm.c:447 layoutgrm.c:468 layoutgrm.c:477 layoutgrm.c:498 
layoutgrm.c:509 layoutgrm.c:529 layoutgrm.c:551 layoutgrm.c:775 layoutgrm.c:778 
layoutgrm.c:781 layoutgrm.c:799 layoutgrm.c:803 layoutgrm.c:807 
layoutgrm.c:1749 layoutgrm.c:1880 layoutlex.h:41 object.h:149 object.c:29 
object.c:29 object.c:42 layoutlex.c:502 layoutlex.c:502 layoutlex.c:1995 
layoutlex.c:1995 layoutlex.c:2005
inline: cmosop.c:28 cmosop.c:34
size_t: layoutgrm.y:36 regexp.c:35 valuefile.c:40 layoutgrm.c:141 
layoutgrm.c:574 layoutlex.c:337 layoutlex.c:539 layoutlex.c:540 layoutlex.c:646 
layoutlex.c:1064

program:
cc: biosconfig.c cmoslow.c cmoslow.h cmosop.c cmosop.h layoutgrm.y layoutlex.l 
regexp.c regexp.h valuefile.c valuefile.h layoutgrm.c layoutgrm.h layoutlex.h 
object.h object.c layoutlex.c
gcc: Makefile:31
yacc: Makefile:33

makevar:
CC: Makefile:31
YACC: Makefile:33

librarie:
autoscan: running: /usr/bin/autom4te --language=autoconf --verbose 
--include=/usr/share/autoconf  --trace=AC_CHECK_FUNCS --trace=AC_CHECK_HEADERS 
--trace=AC_C_CONST --trace=AC_C_INLINE --trace=AC_FUNC_ALLOCA 
--trace=AC_FUNC_ERROR_AT_LINE --trace=AC_FUNC_MALLOC --trace=AC_FUNC_REALLOC 
--trace=AC_HEADER_STDC --trace=AC_PREREQ --trace=AC_PROG_CC 
--trace=AC_PROG_YACC --trace=AC_TYPE_SIZE_T configure.ac
autom4te: configure.ac: no such file or directory
autoscan: /usr/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux homage 2.4.24-1custom1 #1 Fri Jan 16 15:31:53 PST 2004 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages autoconf depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.6.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  m4                            1.4-17     a macro processing language
ii  perl                          5.8.2-2    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

-- no debconf information




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Ben Pfaff 
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