Re: bootstrap doesn't work on FreeBSD

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:36:15AM CEST:
> On Jun 19, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >I don't quite realize yet what's broken here, but with Autoconf 2.62
> >(from FreeBSD /usr/local/bin), Libtool bootstrap does not work, see
> >below.
> 
> I see something similar when using m4-1.4.5, so I suspect a bug in
> old m4 that has since been fixed.  What version of m4 are you using?

m4-1.4.13.

> I had also thought I was underquoting somewhere because I couldn't
> get M4SH_GETOPTS to inject tabs into the shell loop and line the
> generated shell code loop up more properly;  I wasn't able to track
> that down, but assuming M4 is not the culprit, then this bug
> indicates that there might actually be an overquoted expression
> somewhere in getopts.m4sh :-( I'll take another look later today,
> and see if I can get to the bottom of it.

Thanks.

Cheers,
Ralf