Re: autoconf bug?

[Akim Demaille]

Tomas Berndtsson <address@hidden> writes:

> Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Tomas Berndtsson <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > My autoconf version is 2.13. m4 is GNU m4 1.4. 
> > > 
> > > I have the following in my configure.in:
> > > 
> > > AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dlopen, , AC_CHECK_LIB(dl,dlopen, ,
> > >     [AC_MSG_ERROR([
> > > *** Zen does not function properly without dlopen, sorry.])]))
> > 
> > As said by Alexandre, this is incorrect, underquoted.  But even quoted
> > 2.13 fails.  Yep, that's a bug in 2.13, which was vastly mixing
> > overquotation, and underquotation.  CVS Autoconf is fixed.
> 
> Ok, thanks. Do you know if a new release is due soon? 

No idea.

> If not, maybe you could point me to where the actual fix was, so I
> can send it to Debian's maintainer?

Impossible, zillions of ramifications in the whole code.  If I were
you, I'd drop out politeness, and especially the comma before your
politeness: I highly suspect that

> > > AC_CHECK_FUNCS(dlopen, , AC_CHECK_LIB(dl,dlopen, ,
> > >     [AC_MSG_ERROR([
> > > *** Zen does not function properly without dlopen.])]))

will work.