Re: autoreconf fails when LT_INIT and AC_SUBST are both present in configure.ac

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Ilker,

* Ilker R Capoglu wrote on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:54:48PM CET:
> I couldn't be sure whether this was a bug or my own doing (which is
> more probable), so I decided to post here.

This looks like a bug somewhere.  I can't reproduce it yet, so:
which Perl and M4 versions do you use?

> When I have both LT_INIT and AC_SUBST macros inside my
> "configure.ac", autoreconf fails:
> $ autoreconf -vif
> autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
> autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
> Use of uninitialized value $msg in concatenation (.) or string at
> /usr/bin/autom4te line 1038.

This is very suspicious, more so since 2.64 has a comment in that line.
Does Ubuntu have local patches in its Autoconf tree not in upstream?

> unknown channel m4trarn_allow(^am__EXEEXT_FALSE$)
> m4tra at /usr/share/autoconf/Autom4te/Channels.pm line 634
>    Autom4te::Channels::msg('m4trarn_allow(^am__EXEEXT_FALSE$)\x{a}m4tra',
> undef, 'warning: ') called at /usr/bin/autom4te line 1038
> aclocal: autom4te failed with exit status: 1
> autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1

Thanks,
Ralf