Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-22 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2020-10-22, Zack Weinberg wrote: > I acknowledge that requiring double-quotation of AC_INIT arguments > when they contain characters significant to M4 _should_ work; however, > it did not work in my tests (which were not exactly the same as the > above; see the "AC_INIT with unusual version

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-22 Thread Nick Bowler
On 22/10/2020, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:53 AM Nick Bowler wrote: >> On 2020-10-22, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:25 PM Paul Eggert >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> >> > We*could* add a special case in AC_INIT

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 11:53 AM Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2020-10-22, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:25 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > >> > >> On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > >> > We*could* add a special case in AC_INIT where, if any of the third, > >> > fourth, or

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-22 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2020-10-22, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:25 PM Paul Eggert wrote: >> >> On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: >> > We*could* add a special case in AC_INIT where, if any of the third, >> > fourth, or fifth arguments contain the literal strings >> > `AC_PACKAGE_NAME`

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-22 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:25 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > We*could* add a special case in AC_INIT where, if any of the third, > > fourth, or fifth arguments contain the literal strings > > `AC_PACKAGE_NAME` or `AC_PACKAGE_VERSION`, those are replaced

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Paul Eggert
On 10/21/20 6:15 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote: We*could* add a special case in AC_INIT where, if any of the third, fourth, or fifth arguments contain the literal strings `AC_PACKAGE_NAME` or `AC_PACKAGE_VERSION`, those are replaced with the values of the first and second argument, respectively.

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:15:41 -0400 Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler wrote: > > On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > > > There autconf 2.69 works,

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2020-10-21, Zack Weinberg wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler wrote: >> Note: the change you report is introduced by Zack's fix for related >> AC_INIT quoting regressions. This patch is not included in 2.69c (or >> even on git master), but does seem to be applied by the

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-21 Thread Zack Weinberg
On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 4:57 PM Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not. ... > > $ cat configure.ac > > AC_INIT([The

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-20 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 16:57:16 -0400 Nick Bowler wrote: > Hi, > > On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not. > > Note: the change you report is

Re: AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-20 Thread Nick Bowler
Hi, On 2020-10-20, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 > There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not. Note: the change you report is introduced by Zack's fix for related AC_INIT quoting regressions. This patch

AC_PACKAGE_VERSION visibility slightly changed in autoconf-2.69c. Bug or feature?

2020-10-20 Thread Sergei Trofimovich
Initial bug is reported as autoconf failure on ghc-8.8.4: https://bugs.gentoo.org/750191 There autconf 2.69 works, 2.69c does not. Here is the minimal example: OK: $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT([The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System], [9.1.0], [glasgow-haskell-b...@haskell.org],