Re: autoconf 2.59 - Syntax error in autoreconf?

[Noah Misch]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:29:37PM -0600, Stan Guillory wrote:
> mkdir $aux_dir
>     or error "cannot create $aux_dir: $!";
> 
> to:
> 
> mkdir $aux_dir, 755
>     or error "cannot create $aux_dir: $!";

Thanks for the report.  This is fixed in CVS.

> That is the mkdir command requires two arguments, and the autoreconf
> script was only 
> passing one. Is this a Perl version thing? We are on Perl 5.005_03. I
> do have a faint memory
> that someone on the list was thinking of dropping Perl 5.0 support.

The argument is optional with newer Perls.

> Also, has 2.59 gotten a lot more picky about quoting arguments to M4
> macros? I get a number
> of warnings stating "incomplete quoting . . ." or something like that.

That's `aclocal' from Automake.