Re: Autoconf 2.57d instability

[Akim Demaille]

Eric Sunshine a dit:

> On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 11:58:54 +0200 (CEST), Akim Demaille wrote:
>> Could you make the test case smaller?  Are you sure all the tests were
>> run with the modified m4?
>
> Okay, I narrowed down the "excess arguments to m4_pushdef" to the
> following
> tiny case:
>
> AC_INIT([crystal], [1], [someone])
> AC_ARG_ENABLE([cpu-specific-optimizations],
>     [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-cpu-specific-optimizations=level],
>         [foo, bar])],
>     [], [])
> AC_OUTPUT
>
> It turns out that AC_HELP_STRING is the culprit.  If I remove the comma
> from
> [foo, bar], then the error disappears.  I suspect that the quoting in the
> new definition of AC_HELP_STRING in 2.57d is not working correctly when it
> calls the newly introduced AS_HELP_STRING.

Arg...  Now I understand why I didn't see the failure: I'm using CVS
Autoconf, and AC_HELP_STRING has just been fixed since then :(  I'm
sorry for the waste of time...

Still, is this the very same test case that causes other architectures
to SEGV?