>>> I removed m4_syscmd, ..., because they were not working on either Mac >>> OS/X or RHEL3. >> >> Hmm, why not? Shouldn't they be working? What versions of m4 and >> Autoconf >> were you using? Let's try to see what the underlying problem is first, >> before removing this from regex.m4. > > Well, I have to admit, I'm not an expert at autoconf or m4... The > versions I'm using are > > autoconf: 2.59; m4: 1.4 (on Mac OS/X 10.3) > Autoconf: 2.59; m4: 1.4.1 (on RHEL 3).
You should upgrade to m4 1.4.3, unless these older m4 versions have been patched heavily. > In both cases running sh -vx configure showed that these looked like > they were not doing anything at all. That is, it was as if they were > comments and the enclosed code was just eliminated. That's the expected behavior. The m4_syscmd code is executed when 'autoconf' is run, not when 'configure' is run. So it sounds like things were working correctly for you. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
