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Re: AC_INIT regression in 2.69c
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Zack Weinberg |
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Re: AC_INIT regression in 2.69c |
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Fri, 30 Oct 2020 17:21:19 -0400 |
On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:40 PM Jani Välimaa <wally@mageia.org> wrote:
> autoreconf seems to be failing with autoconf-2.69c with the following
> AC_INIT in configure.ac.
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> AC_INIT([test],
> [m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version])],
> [bug-autoconf@gnu.org])
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> Same happens also with other m4_* macros wrapped with [].
This is the same as https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110349
. See the threads linked from that bug for further discussion.
In this case, you really _shouldn't_ wrap the m4_esyscmd invocation in
[], because it should only be executed once.