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Re: AC_EGREP_CPP and AC_EGREP_HEADER users - beware of recent gcc
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Eric Blake |
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Re: AC_EGREP_CPP and AC_EGREP_HEADER users - beware of recent gcc |
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Wed, 15 Feb 2017 08:31:11 -0600 |
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On 02/15/2017 04:52 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Some uses of AC_EGREP_CPP and AC_EGREP_HEADER probably assume that when
> no continuation lines (backslash-newline) and no multiline macro invocations
> are involved, each source line produces at most one output line.
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> This is no longer the case with GCC >= 5.
> As you can see, here 1 source line produces up to 4 output lines (ignoring the
> line number comment lines). Attempts to use 'grep Version' to find the values
> of
> __GLIBC__ and __GLIBC_VERSION__ don't work any more.
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> Maybe the documentation of AC_EGREP_CPP and AC_EGREP_HEADER could include
> a caveat about this?
Indeed. grep'ping has always been fragile, but adding another warning
can't hurt. I'll see if I can come up with a patch
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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