autoconf bug report

[yanjing.guo]

Hi,

The result of the 'make check' command is as followed:

address@hidden:~/packages/BUILD/SUNWgnome-im-client-2.10.2/pidgin-2.10.2$ 
make check
cd . && /bin/bash 
/home/jerry/packages/BUILD/SUNWgnome-im-client-2.10.2/pidgin-2.10.2/missing 
--run aclocal-1.10
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12: warning: underquoted definition of 
AM_PATH_AALIB
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12:   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
/usr/share/aclocal/aalib.m4:12:   or see 
http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
configure.ac:164: error: AC_CHECK_MEMBER: requires literal arguments
/builds/hudson/workspace/nightly-update/build/i386/components/autoconf/autoconf-2.68/lib/autoconf/types.m4:880: 
AC_CHECK_MEMBER is expanded from...
/builds/hudson/workspace/nightly-update/build/i386/components/autoconf/autoconf-2.68/lib/autoconf/types.m4:913: 
AC_CHECK_MEMBERS is expanded from...
configure.ac:164: the top level
autom4te: /opt/dtbld/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal-1.10: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
make: *** [aclocal.m4] Error 1

The autoconf 2.68 have some problem with parsing the pointer syntax 
'->', such as the opensolaris patch: pidgin-14-ifaddrs.diff:
+AC_CHECK_MEMBERS(struct ifaddrs.ifa_addr->ss_family,[],[],[[ #include 
<ifaddrs.h>
+#include <net/if.h> ]])

Instead of autoconf 2.68 , the older version 2.63 can work well.


Best Wishes,
Yanjing Guo

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