bug#30616: automake-1.16: aclocal is unable to process AM_PATH_PYTHON with variable as value

[Thomas Deutschmann]

On 2018-02-26 20:20, Andriy Perev Ortkin wrote:
> it fails to bootstrap util-linux too, same error.
> The following commit seems to be the cause:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/commit/m4/python.m4?id=1d60fb72168e62d33fe433380af621de64e22f23
> 
> Reverting it solves the issue for me.

Confirmed, just finished my bisect:

> # git bisect log
> git bisect start
> # good: [552a2732b706faba9bf627c53137cbafc385b708] version 1.15.1
> git bisect good 552a2732b706faba9bf627c53137cbafc385b708
> # bad: [4f73bb80d1583441ed4a1c681a843fe4d9d5e26c] version 1.16
> git bisect bad 4f73bb80d1583441ed4a1c681a843fe4d9d5e26c
> # good: [f61b6ef9255ada04114d0d1a3199297ed4ed0171] Merge branch 'maint'
> git bisect good f61b6ef9255ada04114d0d1a3199297ed4ed0171
> # good: [cc7231cc3668a387ae36905efca11f9d236c8df6] Merge branch 'minor'
> git bisect good cc7231cc3668a387ae36905efca11f9d236c8df6
> # good: [561f4736f68e80a9235c7fab48d72de118282d6d] Merge branch 'minor'
> git bisect good 561f4736f68e80a9235c7fab48d72de118282d6d
> # good: [0186f3fccb9d1382acf6674f3ce385c447190d94] missing: Update displayed 
> URLs
> git bisect good 0186f3fccb9d1382acf6674f3ce385c447190d94
> # good: [a0c7e40cf64d4512cc21ee5cdb9ba1341055f11c] tests: Distribute DEJATOOL 
> files manually
> git bisect good a0c7e40cf64d4512cc21ee5cdb9ba1341055f11c
> # bad: [006c4dfede96091f5bed622c17946cbec067347f] python: Avoid exceeding 
> command-line length limit
> git bisect bad 006c4dfede96091f5bed622c17946cbec067347f
> # bad: [1d60fb72168e62d33fe433380af621de64e22f23] python: Generate python 
> interpreter list
> git bisect bad 1d60fb72168e62d33fe433380af621de64e22f23
> # good: [3edf8e05670dfa761d45c835ecbd8669799bd1a5] tests: Improve comment in 
> 'txinfo-many-output-formats.sh'
> git bisect good 3edf8e05670dfa761d45c835ecbd8669799bd1a5
> # first bad commit: [1d60fb72168e62d33fe433380af621de64e22f23] python: 
> Generate python interpreter list


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Regards,
Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer
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