mmm-mode configure hangs because of autoconf bug

[Jauhien Piatlicki]

Hi,

on my Gentoo system autogenerated configure script for mmm-mode
(http://mmm-mode.sourceforge.net/) hangs because configure script
generated by autoconf calls emacs without '--no-site-file' flag.

The call that configure makes looks like this:

    sudo emacs -batch -q -eval '(while load-path (princ (concat (car
load-path) "\n")) (setq load-path (cdr load-path)))'

and it hangs on

    Opening output file: no such file or directory,
/root/.emacs.d/.smex-items

The call

    sudo emacs -batch -q --no-site-file -eval '(while load-path (princ
(concat (car load-path) "\n")) (setq load-path (cdr load-path)))'

succeds. It is a bug in the sys-devel/autoconf and can not be fixed by
patching configure.in as autoconf itself generates wrong call to emacs.

Configure and configure.in are attached.

See also https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561306

Regards,
Jauhien Piatlicki

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