Re: shortened 'for' statement in autoconf.m4f

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Mikus,

Please keep the mailing list in Cc:, thanks.

* Mikus Grinbergs wrote on Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:54:08PM CEST:
> You wrote:
> >Please post a short example configure.ac that exposes this problem.
> 
> I don't have a short example.  I encountered this problem when 
> trying to compile the BOINC client on my 64-bit Ubuntu 7.04 system.
> 
> The shortened 'for' occurs on line#46013 of the attached configure. 
>  Note: the line above ('ac_file_inputs=') is likely to have been 
> shortened as well.

(He sent the file off-list.  The respective line is part of the
config.status loop `for ac_f <newline> do ...'.)

This shell construct is perfectly ok.  Such a for loop iterates over all
positional parameters ($1, $2, ..., in short: "$@") and is portable.

For me to be able to analyze the problem, I need to be able to reproduce
it.  That means, I need to see the configure.ac file much rather than
any generated file, and the exact commands (and their outputs) you use
to expose the problem.  Best with a small example, if not possible then
with the original code.  In that case please post a link to download it.
Example: "I have this configure.ac: ... then I run autoconf, then
  ./configure -C
and then this error occurs: ... (cut and pasted output)"

> mikus  (I do not subscribe to any gnu or autoconf lists)

Cheers,
Ralf