Re: [Fwd: Re: AC_CONFIG_FILES problem with Automake 1.7.1]

[Akim Demaille]

| >>>>> "Tamara" == Tamara L Dahlgren <Tamara> writes:
| Tamara> I performed the command as requested.  The output is:
| Tamara> /tmp/t4OdrjL4/traces.m4:1066:
| Tamara> /usr/casc/babel/apps/buildtools/bin/m4: Error matching regular
| Tamara> expression "^ *\(.*\) *$"
| 
| I can't reproduce your problem with tiny examples:
| 
| /tmp % cat configure.ac                                           nostromo 
20:15
| AC_INIT
| AC_CONFIG_FILES([ \
|   foo \
|   bar \
| baz \
| ])
| /tmp % autoconf -t 'AC_CONFIG_FILES:${::}%'                       nostromo 
20:15
| foo bar baz 
| 
| 
| Can you?  Are you by any lack of luck, running some platform with a
| weird notion of \n?  What does /usr/casc/babel/apps/buildtools/bin/m4
| --version say?

Please don't answer privately, and send compressed tarballs if
possible.

Well, it works fine on my machine :(  How can you have such a big
list???  It's amazing.

Ohoh...  Wait: it fails with GNU M4 1.4.  Maybe you are overflowing
some limitation in GNU M4 with your huge list.  You may want to
install this beta of M4 (I use it), and reinstall Autoconf :(

     http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/m4-1.4q.tar.gz