Source: automake-1.14
Version: 1:1.14.1-2
Severity: critical
Tags: patch
While trying to build a new version of nbdkit, I fonud that a freshly
generated configure script contains a syntax error:
,----
| $ curl -O http://libguestfs.org/download/nbdkit/nbdkit-1.1.4.tar.gz
| [...]
| $ tar xzf nbdkit-1.1.4.tar.gz
| $ cd nbdkit-1.1.4/
| $ autoreconf
| $ ./configure
| [...]
| checking for style of include used by make... GNU
| checking whether make supports nested variables... yes
| checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
| ./configure: line 4820: syntax error near unexpected token `case'
| ./configure: line 4820: `fi case `pwd` in'
`----
To me, this looks like a missing newline at the end of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
in /usr/share/aclocal-1.14/init.m4. At least the attached patch fixes
the problem for me.
Cheers,
-Hilko
--- /usr/share/aclocal-1.14/init.m4.orig 2014-02-12 09:45:22.883382346 +0100
+++ /usr/share/aclocal-1.14/init.m4 2014-02-12 09:45:40.758921507 +0100
@@ -164,7 +164,8 @@
END
AC_MSG_ERROR([Your 'rm' program is bad, sorry.])
fi
-fi])
+fi
+])
dnl Hook into '_AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT' early to learn its expansion. Do not
dnl add the conditional right here, as _AC_COMPILER_EXEEXT may be further
