Re: gettext 0.11.2: Using autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.1

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 13 May 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `test 
> > "${ac_cv_lib[]Name+set}" = set': Unmatched [ or [^
> > configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `$ac_cv_lib[]Name': 
> > Unmatched [ or [^
> > configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `$ac_cv_lib[]Name': 
> > Unmatched [ or [^
> 
> I don't have that problem.  What does `m4 --version' say?

GNU m4 1.4

The release is eight years old! -- you don't suspect me to run anything
older, do you? 

> > so I bulk-converted all
> > `[]' occurences to address@hidden@' as using brackets makes scripts fragile 
> > due to
> > their quoting properties. 
> 
> But this breaks autoconf 2.13, and it makes the code harder to read.

 I felt autoconf 2.13 compatibility is unimportant here as you can't
support both 2.13 and 2.53 at the same time anyway due to LIBOBJS vs
AC_LIBOBJ.

> I would rather find out why m4 is not working for you, and fix that
> problem, as the error messages could be a symptom of a more important
> bug.  It could be a bug in m4/lib-link.m4, or it could be something
> else.

 OK, I'm willing to provide any help necessary.

  Maciej

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