Re: shortened 'for' statement in autoconf.m4f

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Mikus,

* Mikus Grinbergs wrote on Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 11:04:40PM CEST:
> In autoconf version 2.61 there is a shortened 'for' statement that 
> causes my compile of certain applications to fail with a "cannot 
> find input file" error when executing the config.status file. 
> (Config.status is attempting to recognize the content in variable 
> $ac_f.)
> 
> As far as I can determine the error is caused by a line 'for ac_f' 
> in autoconf.m4f [one can search on 'build tree', which is four lines 
> down].  I believe that statement should instead be something similar 
> to 'for ac_f in $ac_file_in'.  The shortened statement is line#4976 
> in the 2.61 autoconf.m4f (404132 bytes), or line#7075 in the 2.61-3 
> autoconf.mf4 (404216 bytes).

Please post a short example configure.ac that exposes this problem.

Thanks,
Ralf