Re: bootstrap doesn't work on FreeBSD

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Jun 19, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>  
wrote:

> Hi Gary,

Hallo Ralf,

> I don't quite realize yet what's broken here, but with Autoconf 2.62
> (from FreeBSD /usr/local/bin), Libtool bootstrap does not work, see
> below.

I see something similar when using m4-1.4.5, so I suspect a bug in old  
m4 that has since been fixed.  What version of m4 are you using?

I had also thought I was underquoting somewhere because I couldn't get  
M4SH_GETOPTS to inject tabs into the shell loop and line the generated  
shell code loop up more properly;  I wasn't able to track that down,  
but assuming M4 is not the culprit, then this bug indicates that there  
might actually be an overquoted expression somewhere in getopts.m4sh :- 
( I'll take another look later today, and see if I can get to the  
bottom of it.

>  Another bug is that the bootstrap script doesn't abort upon
> error, I'm going to fix that one right away now by adding 'set -e'.

Agreed.

Cheers
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Gary V. Vaughan (address@hidden)