On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:40 PM Jani Välimaa <wa...@mageia.org> wrote: > autoreconf seems to be failing with autoconf-2.69c with the following > AC_INIT in configure.ac. > > AC_INIT([test], > [m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version])], > [bug-autoconf@gnu.org]) > > Same happens also with other m4_* macros wrapped with [].
This is the same as https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110349 . See the threads linked from that bug for further discussion. In this case, you really _shouldn't_ wrap the m4_esyscmd invocation in [], because it should only be executed once.
