another problem after updating autoconf-2.61 to 2.62

2008-06-05 Thread Karsten Hopp
People are starting to use this in Fedora and are filing bugreports. Here's another one: # cat test.at m4_define([AT_PACKAGE_NAME], [Regression test]) m4_define([AT_PACKAGE_TARNAME], [Regression-test]) m4_define([AT_PACKAGE_VERSION], [0.0.1]) m4_define([AT_PACKAGE_STRING],

Re: regression in autoconf-2.62 vs. 2.61

2008-06-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello, I'd like to propose a solution, please speak up if you are not satisfied with it. (If we reach an agreement, I'm willing to prepare a patch later.) First, let me state that, strictly speaking, this is not a regression. The Autoconf manual says that the #undef line cannot contain

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-06-05 Thread Stepan Kasal
Hello Eric, [adding bug-automake and bug-make; ...] I sent a separate followup there. This mail goes again to bug-autconf only, as it discusses possible workaround with current make implementation. Regarding the patch attached to

Re: another problem after updating autoconf-2.61 to 2.62

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
Karsten Hopp karsten at redhat.com writes: People are starting to use this in Fedora and are filing bugreports. Here's another one: AT_KEYWORDS([m4_if([$1], [dummy], [], [$1 ])dummy]) I argue that this is a bug in the user's code; the documentation for AT_KEYWORDS is unchanged since

Re: autoconf-2.62: `make install' fails if file system is case insensitive

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
Stepan Kasal kasal at ucw.cz writes: Hello Eric, Hello Stepan, and thanks for the ideas, Consequently, I'd like to propose an alternate solution: if configure detects case-insensitive make, the rule for $(srcdir)/INSTALL would be disabled. That should not be a problem, as case

Re: another problem after updating autoconf-2.61 to 2.62

2008-06-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Karsten Hopp on 6/5/2008 5:31 AM: | People are starting to use this in Fedora and are filing bugreports. Now that I've posted a patch, do you have a URL to one of these bug reports, so that we can update the ChangeLog to refer to it? -

Re: another problem after updating autoconf-2.61 to 2.62

2008-06-05 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Eric, * Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:23:41PM CEST: Karsten Hopp karsten at redhat.com writes: AT_KEYWORDS([m4_if([$1], [dummy], [], [$1 ])dummy]) I argue that this is a bug in the user's code; the documentation for AT_KEYWORDS is unchanged since 2.61: In which way