#2020: configure script shipped with ghc is built by broken version of autoconf
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Reporter: bos | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.8.2
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase:
Architecture: Unknown | Os: Unknown
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I've been looking into a downstream packaging problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237398
The problem in question being that package.conf contains incorrect paths
to haddock directories.
I tried to address this problem in the obvious way. Unfortunately, when I
pass --docdir to the configure script that ships with GHC 6.8.1 and 6.8.2,
an option that configure claims it supports, I get an error:
ghc-6.8.2 $ ./configure --docdir=/tmp
configure: error: unrecognized option: --docdir=/tmp
Try `./configure --help' for more information.
This is due to configure being built by autoconf 2.59. If I regenerate
the configure script using autoconf 2.61, it parses the --docdir argument
correctly.
I've got a temporary workaround in the Fedora packaging spec that runs
autoreconf before configure, but it would be best if this were addressed
in GHC itself.
Please upgrade the version of autoconf that you use prior to the next
release.
Thanks!
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