Re: [Bug-indent] problem after bison upgrade

[Gerrit P. Haase]

 david,

2002-01-07 11:52:51, du schriebst:

>> This is a bug in indent's aclocal.m4, or in the
>> /usr/share/aclocal/gettext.m4 you used, in the
>> aclocal.m4 in the indent-2.2.7 source:
>> ac_prog_version=`$INTLBISON --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU Bison .* 
>> \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
>>                                                              ^^^^^^^^^ 
>> And in the latest gettext.m4 I have here:
>> ac_prog_version=`$INTLBISON --version 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*GNU Bison.* 
>> \([0-9]*\.[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'` 
>>                                                                 ^^^^^
>> Since the output is `... (GNU Bison)
>> ...' it fails here .........^^^^^^^
>>

> Gerrit,
> The line you mention in the aclocal.m4 script is indeed automatically 
> generated by the 
> autoconf tool from the file gettext.m4 that is managed (I presume) as part of 
> autoconf. 
> With this mail I will draw it to the attention of the maintainer of autoconf. 
> I have 
> fixed my local version so that the next build of indent will be OK.

Thanks,

> To the maintainer of autoconf:
> This problem arises in the autoconf version 2.52:

> # autoconf --version
> autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.52
> # gettext --version
> gettext (GNU gettext) 0.10.39

Probably the gettext.m4 comes from the gettext package.
There is a 0.10.40 available which is used on Cygwin,
there it seems to be fixed (but I have no idea who is
maintaining gettext).

-- 
Gerrit