Re: Autoconf complaining about bug

[Akim Demaille]

"Everton da Silva Marques" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello.
> 
> When I added AC_CANONICAL_HOST to acinclude.m4, autoconf started
> to complain about some bugs, as shown at the end of this message.
> 
> SYSTEM:
> Package: autoconf 2.13
> OS: Debian 2.2 (Linux 2.2.17)
> Arch: i386
> 
> I'm not sure what else is needed to catch this problem, so
> please feel free to guide me.
> 
> Regards,
> Everton
> 
> 
> address@hidden:~/develop/portfwd/portfwd-0.18/portfwd-0.18rc1$ autoconf
> autoconf: Undefined macros:
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_CC
> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG
> 
> address@hidden:~/develop/portfwd/portfwd-0.18/portfwd-0.18rc1$ autoconf 
> --version
> Autoconf version 2.13
> 
> address@hidden:~/develop/portfwd/portfwd-0.18/portfwd-0.18rc1$ more 
> acinclude.m4 
> AC_CANONICAL_HOST

Your code is buggy.  What you see is typical of 2.13, which defines
AC_FD_* in AC_INIT (I wonder why he did that).  In other words, it is
bad to rely on acinclude and the like to *execute* a macro.

Just *define* in there, and execute *after* AC_INIT.

Hence, don't do what you do.