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Re: AC_BEFORE does not warn when it should


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: AC_BEFORE does not warn when it should
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:15:58 -0600
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On 06/01/2010 10:21 PM, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> This is what I started with: A definition of gl_LIBUNISTRING
>> that starts with
>>
>>  AC_BEFORE([$0], [gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE])
>>  # XXX gl_LIBUNISTRING starts here
>>
>> and a definition of gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE that starts with
>>
>>  # XXX gl_LIBUNISTRING_LIB_PREPARE starts here
>>
>> This produced the same effects: an output order that violates the constraint,
>> and no warning from autoconf.
> 
> Agreed. I can reproduce this with gnulib git master. Unfortunately, even
> with the generous commenting of m4_require in autoconf's m4sugar.m4, I
> can't figure out why it's happening :(
> 
> IIRC Akim wrote the original implementation, and maybe has time to help...

Although I've probably changed things so much from Akim's original
implementation, that it will probably end up being me solving it.  I
hope to look into it in more detail this week.

-- 
Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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