Re: [Fwd: Re: AC_CONFIG_FILES problem with Automake 1.7.1]

[Tamara Dahlgren]

At 11:27 AM 10/29/2002 +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:

> | >>>>> "Tamara" == Tamara L Dahlgren <Tamara> writes:
> | Tamara> I performed the command as requested.  The output is:
> | Tamara> /tmp/t4OdrjL4/traces.m4:1066:
> | Tamara> /usr/casc/babel/apps/buildtools/bin/m4: Error matching regular
> | Tamara> expression "^ *\(.*\) *$"
> |
> | I can't reproduce your problem with tiny examples:
> |
> | /tmp % cat 
> configure.ac                                           nostromo 20:15
> | AC_INIT
> | AC_CONFIG_FILES([ \
> |   foo \
> |   bar \
> | baz \
> | ])
> | /tmp % autoconf -t 
> 'AC_CONFIG_FILES:${::}%'                       nostromo 20:15
> | foo bar baz
> |
> |
> | Can you?  Are you by any lack of luck, running some platform with a
> | weird notion of \n?  What does /usr/casc/babel/apps/buildtools/bin/m4
> | --version say?
>
> Please don't answer privately, and send compressed tarballs if
> possible.

Sorry about that.  I'll keep that in mind.


> Well, it works fine on my machine :(  How can you have such a big
> list???  It's amazing.
>
> Ohoh...  Wait: it fails with GNU M4 1.4.  Maybe you are overflowing
> some limitation in GNU M4 with your huge list.  You may want to
> install this beta of M4 (I use it), and reinstall Autoconf :(
>
>      http://www.lrde.epita.fr/~akim/download/m4-1.4q.tar.gz

Odds are our list will continue to grow so it's _very_ important that we 
get this working or at least find a work-around.  I was unable to get the 
m4-1.4q to compile.  As you probably noticed from Tom Epperly's earlier 
email, he was also unable to get it to compile.

Since overflow is the most likely issue and we anticipate the need to have 
our list grow more as we add functionality and even more regression tests, 
can you please suggest a work-around?

  Tammy