Re: echo "enhancement" leads to confused legacy script tools...

[Paul Eggert]

Linda W <address@hidden> writes:

>       I already have 2.59 installed on my system, "2.59-80.1" from
> SuSE9.3.  So it was with 2.59 autoconf that I originally ran into the
> problem.

OK.  Can you reproduce it with CVS autoconf?  Here's how to build it:

  cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/sources/autoconf co autoconf
  cd autoconf
  ./configure --prefix=$HOME/prefix # substitute your favorite directory here
  make
  make install
  $HOME/prefix/bin/autoconf --version

and then prepend $HOME/prefix/bin (or whatever) to your $PATH.

If you can reproduce the bug with CVS autoconf, can you please tell us
how to reproduce it?  It isn't entirely clear from the messages
already sent to bug-autoconf.  I tried doing this:

   export CVSROOT=':pserver:address@hidden:/squid'
   cvs login
   cvs co squid3
   cd squid3
   ./bootstrap.sh

but this failed as follows:

   automake : 
   autoconfg: 
   libtool  : 
   Bootstrapping 
   configure.in:33: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_DISABLE_SHARED
         If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
         See the Autoconf documentation.
   configure.in:34: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
   configure.in:35: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LTDL_DLLIB
   autoconf failed
   Autotool bootstrapping failed. You will need to investigate and correct
   before you can develop on this source tree

I am using Autoconf 2.59 (Debian stable), Libtool 1.5.22, and Automake
1.9.6.

Thanks.