Hi,
While testing a configure script built with Autoconf git HEAD, I saw that
on AIX the './configure' output ends with
sort: warning: missing NEWLINE added at EOF
whereas on Solaris 10 it ends with
sort: missing NEWLINE added at end of input file STDIN
The part of the configure script that this 'sort' diagnostic comes from is
## Output variables. ##
## ----------------- ##
...
echo
for ac_var in $ac_subst_vars
do
eval ac_val=\$$ac_var
case $ac_val in
*\'\''*) ac_val=`printf '%s\n' "$ac_val" | sed
"s/'\''/'\''\\\\\\\\'\'''\''/g"`;;
esac
printf '%s\n' "$ac_var='\''$ac_val'\''"
done | sort <== HERE
echo
Here the output of the 'for' loop looks like this:
am__EXEEXT_FALSE=''nam__EXEEXT_TRUE='#'nLTLIBOBJS=''nLIBOBJS=''nam__fastdepCC_FALSE=''nam__fastdepCC_TRUE='#'nCCDEPMODE='depmode=none'nam__nodep='_no'nAMDEPBACKSLASH='\'nAMDEP_FALSE='#'nAMDEP_TRUE=''nam__include='include'nDEPDIR='.deps'nOBJEXT='o'nEXEEXT=''nac_ct_CC='cc
-D_STDC_C99= -xarch=generic64 -O'nCPPFLAGS=''nLDFLAGS=''nCFLAGS='-g'nCC='cc
-D_STDC_C99= -xarch=generic64 -O'nam__xargs_n='xargs
-n'nam__rm_f_notfound=''nAM_BACKSLASH='\'nAM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY='1'nAM_DEFAULT_V='$(AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY)'nAM_V='$(V)'nCSCOPE='cscope'nETAGS='etags'nCTAGS='ctags'nam__untar='$${TAR-tar}
xf -'nam__tar='$${TAR-tar} chof -
"$$tardir"'nAMTAR='$${TAR-tar}'nam__leading_dot='.'nSET_MAKE=''nAWK='gawk'nmkdir_p='$(MKDIR_P)'nMKDIR_P='/opt/csw/bin/gmkdir
-p'nINSTALL_STRIP_PROGRAM='$(install_sh) -c -s'nSTRIP=''ninstall_sh='${SHELL}
/home/haible/minos/install-sh'nMAKEINFO=''nAUTOHEADER=''nAUTOMAKE=''nAUTOCONF=''nACLOCAL=''nVERSION='0'nPACKAGE='foo'nCYGPATH_W='echo'nam__isrc=''nINSTALL_DATA='${INSTALL}
-m
644'nINSTALL_SCRIPT='${INSTALL}'nINSTALL_PROGRAM='${INSTALL}'nECHO_T=''nECHO_N='-n'nECHO_C=''ntarget_alias=''nhost_alias=''nbuild_alias=''nLIBS=''nDEFS='-DPACKAGE_NAME=\"foo\"
-DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"foo\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"foo\ 0\"
-DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"foo\" -DVERSION=\"0\"
-DHAVE_STDIO_H=1 ...
So, obviously, there is a quoting problem in the (huge!) 'trap' command
Namely, the
printf '%s\n'
invocations violate the
# WARNING: Use '\'' to represent an apostrophe within the trap.
requirement.
It is caused by commit a245b8525a55363546c2fae383c9616fccd78995 on 2024-08-04.
I first attempted to fix the problem by expanding
AS_ECHO
to
printf '%s\n'
inline. This can be done for the direct AS_ECHO invocations and for the
indirect ones from AS_BOX. But the for the indirect ones from _AC_CACHE_DUMP
I did not succeed to make it work.
So, here's a patch with a different approach: It moves the bulk of this shell
code to shell functions, and the invocation of such a shell function does
not require apostrophes any more.
I've tested this fix, also with "make check".
>From 2684314f899749827e6560f92e340cea700cf2ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 15:17:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Fix quoting in trap command (regression 2024-08-04).
* lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Emit functions ac_cache_dump,
ac_dump_debugging_info. In the trap command, invoke ac_dump_debugging_info.
(AC_CACHE_SAVE): Invoke ac_cache_dump instead of expanding _AC_CACHE_DUMP a
second time.
---
lib/autoconf/general.m4 | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 54 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
index dccddbe1..cbc997f1 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/general.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
@@ -1309,62 +1309,69 @@ done
AS_UNSET(ac_configure_args0)
AS_UNSET(ac_configure_args1)
-# When interrupted or exit'd, cleanup temporary files, and complete
-# config.log. We remove comments because anyway the quotes in there
-# would cause problems or look ugly.
-# WARNING: Use '\'' to represent an apostrophe within the trap.
-# WARNING: Do not start the trap code with a newline, due to a FreeBSD 4.0 bug.
-trap 'exit_status=$?
- # Sanitize IFS.
- IFS=" "" $as_nl"
- # Save into config.log some information that might help in debugging.
- {
- echo
-
- AS_BOX([Cache variables.])
- echo
- m4_bpatsubsts(m4_defn([_AC_CACHE_DUMP]),
- [^ *\(#.*\)?
-], [],
- ['], ['\\''])
- echo
+# Dump the cache to stdout. It can be in a pipe (this is a requirement).
+ac_cache_dump ()
+{
+ _AC_CACHE_DUMP
+}
+
+# Print debugging info to stdout.
+ac_dump_debugging_info ()
+{
+ echo
+
+ AS_BOX([Cache variables.])
+ echo
+ ac_cache_dump
+ echo
+
+ AS_BOX([Output variables.])
+ echo
+ for ac_var in $ac_subst_vars
+ do
+ eval ac_val=\$$ac_var
+ case $ac_val in
+ *\'*) ac_val=`AS_ECHO(["$ac_val"]) | sed "s/'/'\\\\\\\\''/g"`;;
+ esac
+ AS_ECHO(["$ac_var='$ac_val'"])
+ done | sort
+ echo
- AS_BOX([Output variables.])
+ if test -n "$ac_subst_files"; then
+ AS_BOX([File substitutions.])
echo
- for ac_var in $ac_subst_vars
+ for ac_var in $ac_subst_files
do
eval ac_val=\$$ac_var
case $ac_val in
- *\'\''*) ac_val=`AS_ECHO(["$ac_val"]) | sed "s/'\''/'\''\\\\\\\\'\'''\''/g"`;;
+ *\'*) ac_val=`AS_ECHO(["$ac_val"]) | sed "s/'/'\\\\\\\\''/g"`;;
esac
- AS_ECHO(["$ac_var='\''$ac_val'\''"])
+ AS_ECHO(["$ac_var='$ac_val'"])
done | sort
echo
+ fi
- if test -n "$ac_subst_files"; then
- AS_BOX([File substitutions.])
- echo
- for ac_var in $ac_subst_files
- do
- eval ac_val=\$$ac_var
- case $ac_val in
- *\'\''*) ac_val=`AS_ECHO(["$ac_val"]) | sed "s/'\''/'\''\\\\\\\\'\'''\''/g"`;;
- esac
- AS_ECHO(["$ac_var='\''$ac_val'\''"])
- done | sort
- echo
- fi
+ if test -s confdefs.h; then
+ AS_BOX([confdefs.h.])
+ echo
+ cat confdefs.h
+ echo
+ fi
+ test "$ac_signal" != 0 &&
+ AS_ECHO(["$as_me: caught signal $ac_signal"])
+ AS_ECHO(["$as_me: exit $exit_status"])
+}
- if test -s confdefs.h; then
- AS_BOX([confdefs.h.])
- echo
- cat confdefs.h
- echo
- fi
- test "$ac_signal" != 0 &&
- AS_ECHO(["$as_me: caught signal $ac_signal"])
- AS_ECHO(["$as_me: exit $exit_status"])
- } >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
+# When interrupted or exit'd, cleanup temporary files, and complete
+# config.log. We remove comments because anyway the quotes in there
+# would cause problems or look ugly.
+# WARNING: Use '\'' to represent an apostrophe within the trap.
+# WARNING: Do not start the trap code with a newline, due to a FreeBSD 4.0 bug.
+trap 'exit_status=$?
+ # Sanitize IFS.
+ IFS=" "" $as_nl"
+ # Save into config.log some information that might help in debugging.
+ ac_dump_debugging_info >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD
eval "rm -f $ac_clean_CONFIG_STATUS core *.core core.conftest.*" &&
rm -f -r conftest* confdefs* conf$[$]* $ac_clean_files &&
exit $exit_status
@@ -2253,7 +2260,7 @@ m4_define([AC_CACHE_SAVE],
_ACEOF
-_AC_CACHE_DUMP() |
+ac_cache_dump |
sed ['
/^ac_cv_env_/b end
t clear
--
2.43.0
