Re: Bug math.h?

[Daniel Goldman]

Hi Eric,

Of course, even beyond the wasted bandwidth, you are right to expect a 
poster to provide a clear explanation, not just attach an image. Sorry 
you had to waste your time transcribing text from an image. Just voicing 
a little support for you.

BTW, I do not currently use m4. I used it a bunch once, and studied it 
very carefully. Just do not use it right now. But I do want to stay on 
the list because interested in many types of text processing. And kind 
of interesting to see the occasional post.

Thanks,
Daniel Goldman

On 2/3/2020 7:10 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 2/3/20 8:02 AM, Arthur Armand wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > This is my screen error...
> >
> > [image: image.png]
>
> Attaching an image is poor use of bandwidth (the mail server has to
> replicate the image to every subscriber, and some subscribers may have
> data limits that make downloading an image expensive); if an image is
> needed, it is better to just post a URL to the image hosted elsewhere
> (then only interested subscribers have to chase the link), or even
> better to just paste the text from your terminal instead of relying on a
> screenshot.
>
> Transcribing relevant portions of what I see in the image:
>
> $ make
> C:/Apache/Git/mingw64/bin/make.exe  all-recursive
> ...
> make[2]: Entering directory 'C:/Apache/httpd-2.4.41//srclib/m4-1.4.18/lib'
> ...
>    GEN      locale.h
> /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 212: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> /usr/bin/sh: -c: line 213: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:2400: math.h] Error 1
> ...
>
> > Could you help me?
>
> I haven't personally tried to build m4 under mingw, so it could be
> something about the mingw platform that is tripping you up (perhaps a
> stray carriage return somewhere confusing sh?).  So I'm not sure how
> best to proceed with debugging this build failure further.  The problem
> is probably not in math.h directly, but in the Makefile and shell code
> injected by gnulib's math module during autoconf/automake.  Perhaps you
> can try to find what portion of the generated 'configure' file is
> probing for math.h, or what gets inserted into the Makefile at the point
> where make tries to run /usr/bin/sh -c on a sed script that would
> generate math.h.