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List:       binutils
Subject:    Re: Maintainermode/make dep-am trouble
From:       Alexandre Oliva <aoliva () redhat ! com>
Date:       2002-12-30 19:48:54
Message-ID: oru1gvnv89.fsf () free ! redhat ! lsd ! ic ! unicamp ! br
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Trying to catch up on almost-last-year's e-mail... :-)

On Nov  8, 2002, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Svein E. Seldal wrote:
>> 23 sveinse@stardust ~/tic4x/src.tic4x.mt/gas$ make dep-am
>> cd . && aclocal
>> cd . && automake --cygnus Makefile
>> cd . && autoconf
>> configure.in:12: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
>> configure.in:12: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX
>> autoconf: Undefined macros:
>> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG
>> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_CC
>> 
>> 24 sveinse@stardust ~/tic4x/src.tic4x.mt/gas$ autoconf --version
>> Autoconf version 2.13

> I see that too, using the maintainer-mode approved tools and I
> still don't know why it happens.  Perhaps a version mismatch in
> some generated *.m4 somewhere.

Or perhaps some version mismatch in some .m4 file being brought in by
aclocal that happens to get autoconf to choke.  Anyway, errors like
this *always* indicate lack of m4 [] quoting in arguments to macros.

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