2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Joel E. Denny
Hi, According to Autoconf 2.62's manual, AT_SETUP no longer allows unbalanced parentheses to appear in test case titles. This regression breaks CVS Bison's test suite, which worked fine with 2.61, and it seems like an unnecessary limitation. Bison's test suite contains a series of test cases

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/21/2008 11:49 PM: | I am not upgrading the distro. I want to enable to developers to work on | my sources. Therefore, I am shipping autoconf+automake add-on packages | (Installed to /opt/...). | | ... now, autoconf is

Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

2008-04-22 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 06:18 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Corsepius on 4/21/2008 11:49 PM: | I am not upgrading the distro. I want to enable to developers to work on | my sources. Therefore, I am shipping autoconf+automake add-on

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Eric Blake
Ralf Wildenhues Ralf.Wildenhues at gmx.de writes: Hi Ralf, and thanks for the review, How so? C99 supports : and : as the digraphs for [ and ]. I wasn't being very serious. Well, quadrigraphs are about as close to line noise as we can get :) @@ -10904,6 +10912,14 @@ m4_quote(active2,

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Joel E. Denny
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Eric Blake wrote: | Instead of adding the precondition no unbalanced parentheses to | AT_SETUP, why not add the precondition the argument must expand properly | quoted? Because AT_SETUP now uses the newly documented m4_expand macro, which in turn REQUIRES balanced ()

Re: 2.62 AT_SETUP limitations

2008-04-22 Thread Noah Misch
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:45:26AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: According to Joel E. Denny on 4/22/2008 2:36 AM: | According to Autoconf 2.62's manual, AT_SETUP no longer allows unbalanced | parentheses to appear in test case titles. This regression breaks CVS | Bison's test suite, which worked