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Re: glibc 2.2.3 + autoconf 2.52
- To: aj at suse dot de
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.2.3 + autoconf 2.52
- From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam at yggdrasil dot com>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 23:41:07 -0700
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
>> First, the stuff that might be correct are the patches to
>> the top level configure.in and aclocal.m4 files. There are a few
>> places where autoconf-2.52 seems to need a few more things to be
>> quoted, and that is what these changes do.
>Can you send just those patches separatly? We can look over them and
>integrate them already since those patches should work fine with older
>and newer autoconf versions.
>Please note that your patches are against 2.2.3. Since then a few
>patches have been done already and I would appreciate if you could
>make your patches against 2.2.4pre1 or better against CVS,
>Thanks,
>Andreas
>--
> Andreas Jaeger
> SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
> private aj@arthur.inka.de
> http://www.suse.de/~aj
Sure, no problem. One thing to keep in mind is that I believe
that some of the quoting that I added is only necessary because the
"sinclude(aclocal.m4)" line in configure.in fragments causes
autoconf-2.52 to read aclocal.m4 twice and then expand macro names
that were defined the first time that aclocal.m4 was included.
autoconf-2.52, apparently unlike some older autoconf version does
automatically read aclocal.m4 from autoconf's current working
directly, even if the configure.in file being processed is elsewhere,
so the file is read twice. If we got rid of the
"sinclude(aclocal.m4)" lines in the configure.in fragments and thereby
required autoconf 2.52 (or whatever release included this feature),
then much of that quoting would probably be unnecessary.
Anyhow, the quoting should be harmless, and it is probably better
to support a range of autoconf versions if that is easy. So, I will make
a patch of just the stuff that should be OK against glibc-cvs tomorrow.
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