Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

[Sergei Trofimovich]

On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:57:16 -0400
Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4:
> >     https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191
> > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not.  
> 
> Note: the change you report is introduced by Zack's fix for related
> AC_INIT quoting regressions.  This patch is not included in 2.69c (or
> even on git master), but does seem to be applied by the Gentoo package.
> 
> The 2.69c release version seems to handle the example fine.

Oh, I did not realize we carry an out of tree patch with such a behaviour
change. Redirected the bug to Gentoo autoconf package maintainers.

Thank you!

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  Sergei