Re: GNU autoconf-2.66 released [stable]

[Roberto Bagnara]

On 07/03/2010 01:30 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> The GNU Autoconf team is pleased to announce the stable release of
> Autoconf 2.66.

After upgrading from Autoconf 2.65 to Autoconf 2.66 the line

  AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([int*])

results into this error

$ autoreconf
configure.ac:651: error: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF: requires literal arguments
../../lib/autoconf/types.m4:765: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF is expanded from...
configure.ac:651: the top level
autom4te: /usr/local/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: /usr/local/bin/autom4te failed with exit status: 1
autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
$ autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.66
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

For a complete testcase, you can do

$ git clone git://git.cs.unipr.it/ppl/ppl.git
$ cd ppl
$ autoreconf

Cheers,

   Roberto

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Prof. Roberto Bagnara
Applied Formal Methods Laboratory
Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy
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