Hello!
> Autoupdate doesn't work properly for me. For example, AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM
> is replaced with a long definition instead of just AC_CANONICAL_TARGET as
> it's supposed to be.
It appears that AU_ALIAS is guilty. If I replace AU_ALIAS with AU_DEFUN in
the definition of AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM is is updated correcly.
Let's see what happens. Look at the following definitions from
acgeneral.m4:
define([AU_ALIAS],
[AU_DEFUN([$1], defn([$2]))])
AU_ALIAS([AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM], [AC_CANONICAL_TARGET])
This together essentially means - define AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM to the
definition of AC_CANONICAL_TARGET. The later is not the same as the
literal "AC_CANONICAL_TARGET", so AU_DEFUN is called not with the same
arguments as in the _supposedly_ equivalent
AU_DEFUN([AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM], [AC_CANONICAL_TARGET])
This patch works for me, i.e. autoupdate works and the testsuite still
passes. And even configure still works with old macros. However, it is by
no means a patch made by somebody who knows what he is doing :-)
========================
--- acgeneral.m4 Thu Sep 14 23:22:57 2000
+++ acgeneral.m4 Sat Sep 16 22:56:56 2000
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@
# interest in running the test suite on both OLD-NAME and NEW-NAME.
# This macro makes it possible to distinguish such cases.
define([AU_ALIAS],
-[AU_DEFUN([$1], defn([$2]))])
+[AU_DEFUN([$1], [$2])])
========================
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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