I'll just throw this out for the collective memory:
Regenerating regression tests with autom4te from autoconf-2.69 is buggy.
I did this with the testsuite included in GNU tar 1.29. Commands with a
leading parenthesis...
onetop05.at:(mkdir d1
remfiles01.at:(tar -c -f a -z --remove-files b c 2>err || (exit 2) ) 2>/dev/null
sigpipe.at:(tar tf archive 2>&3 | :) 3>&2 2>/dev/null
... were mis-expanded, i.e., there was an extra parenthesis in the
generated shell code that caused syntax errors.
A workaround for this is to use GNU m4: Install devel/m4 and put
M4=${LOCALBASE}/bin/gm4 into the environment when calling autom4te.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected]
