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

[Zack Weinberg]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:53 AM Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> wrote:
> On 2020-10-22, Zack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:25 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >> > We*could*  add a special case in AC_INIT where, if any of the third,
> >> > fourth, or fifth arguments contain the literal strings
> >> > `AC_PACKAGE_NAME` or `AC_PACKAGE_VERSION`, those are replaced with the
> >> > values of the first and second argument, respectively.  This would
> >> > keep the GHC code working as-is.  I'm not sure whether that's a good
> >> > idea; cc:ing Paul and Eric for their thoughts.
> >>
> >> I'm not following all the details here
> >
> > The concrete problem is that, without the hack I described, we cannot
> > support both
> >
> > AC_INIT([foo], [1.0], [foo-bug@foo.org], [foo-AC_PACKAGE_VERSION])
> >
> > and
> >
> > AC_INIT([bar], [1.0], [foo-bug@[192.0.2.1]])
>
> I think this is missing the point.  The m4 way is that such an
> email address should simply be double quoted to avoid the unwanted
> m4 expansion, for example:
>
>   AC_INIT([bar], [1.0], [[foo-bug@[192.0.2.1]]])

I tried that and it doesn't work.  No amount of extra quotation (ok, I
only went up to four levels before I gave up) will prevent the square
brackets from being lost, if I don't have autoconf use m4_defn to set
the value of the shell variable PACKAGE_BUGREPORT.

zw