[sr #110397] autoconf 2.70: autotest.m4 error

[Zack Weinberg]

Update of sr #110397 (project autoconf):

                  Status:                    None => Need Info              

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Follow-up Comment #1:

Thanks for the bug report.  It looks like the smoke-test code in your Homebrew
recipe was attempting to run autoconf (the command-line utility) on the file
Autoconf (the package) installs as
$prefix/share/autoconf/autotest/autotest.m4.  This file is not a configure
script, and running autoconf on it is not expected to work.  It looks like you
have already changed your recipe to do a more sensible smoke test.

It should be possible to build autoconf from the release tarball without
running `autoreconf -fiv` first and without having automake installed,
*unless* you patch configure.ac, Makefile.am, any of the files in the m4/ or
build-aux/ subdirectories, or any of the files with a .mk extension.

Could you please provide a link to the complete build log for the failed
attempt to build automake after regenerating its configure script with the new
autoconf?  That might indeed be a bug.

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