Re: [GNU Autoconf 2.69] OSX autotools: `aclocal.m4' not being output by `autom4te'

[Jeffrey Sheen]

Thanks Eric.

I'll check the man pages for 'autom4te' to see which environment variables can 
set its execution mode.

Cheers,

Jeff

On 20 Jun 2014, at 17:42, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 06/20/2014 09:54 AM, Jeffrey Sheen wrote:
>> Dear lists,
>> 
>> I have run `testsuite' with the latest tar of Autoconf, and have many
>> failures reported.
> 
> You definitely have a broken setup, but I'm not sure what's causing it.
> 
>> Please find the output logs attached for `make check' and `make
>> installcheck'. The errors in both are the same according to `diff'.
>> 
>> If you could find the time to take a look, it'd be much appreciated.
> 
> From your other mail:
> 
>> #                             -*- compilation -*-
>> 5. tools.at:145: testing autom4te and whitespace in file names ...
>> ./tools.at:163: mkdir "$dir" "$cachedir" "$TMPDIR" && touch "$file" || exit 
>> 77
>> ./tools.at:174: autom4te -C "$cachedir" -B "$dir" --language=m4sugar -o 
>> "$outfile" "$file"
>> ./tools.at:175: cat "$outfile"
>> --- -    2014-06-20 15:46:02.000000000 +0100
>> +++ 
>> /Volumes/DATA/filestore/development/gnu/autoconf/extract/autoconf-2.69/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/5/stdout
>>     2014-06-20 15:46:02.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -1,2 +1,5 @@
>> +m4trace: file with  funny ' $x & #! name:1: -1- m4_pattern_forbid([^_?m4_])
>> +m4trace: file with  funny ' $x & #! name:1: -1- m4_pattern_forbid([^dnl$])
>> +m4trace: file with  funny ' $x & #! name:1: -1- m4_include([foo.m4])
>> bar
> 
> We need to figure out what is causing those spurious 'm4trace: ' lines
> to be output at the beginning of every run of autom4te.  Do you have any
> environment variables or config.site that might be interfering with
> normal operation of the tools, by causing autom4te to behave as if it
> were being requested to trace macros instead of do its normal job?
> 
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