Re: texinfo-4.5: configure bug

[Karl Berry]

    In the 4.5 tgz in configure at line 6440 

What system are you on?  Since configure is generated differently, line
6440 doesn't correspond to anything I have.
    
    where the comma is interpreted as an argument delimeter by the
    AC_TRY_LINK macro beginning on line 107.

It sounds like a bug in autoconf, or perhaps in your system's sed or
other tools.  On the systems I have access to, that comma (before 24 Aug
2000, right?) causes no trouble.  The argument is quoted with [...], so
the comma should not be interpreted as an argument delimiter.

    but now I need to pore through the autoconf doc, 

It's basically plain text, so you could use more (or less) in a pinch.

    but I really need an info reader to do that, 

I gather you're on a new system so there are no precompiled
binaries ...

    and I can't get the info reader compiled without fixing configure...)

Perhaps read them on the web or another system.

Or, just editing configure by hand for that weird comma shouldn't be
too hard, you could extract it from the configure generated on another
system.  Here's what I get (on GNU/Linux):

...
short ospeed;
#endif
#endif
/* Make sure all variables actually exist.  AIX 4.3 has ospeed but no BC.
   --Andreas Ley <address@hidden>, 24 Aug 2000.  */
BC++;
UP++;
PC++;
return ospeed != 0;

  ;
  return 0;
}

HTH,
k