RE: warnings with automake 1.10 on cygwin / pstoedit.m4, libsmi.m4, etc.

[David Byron]

On Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 @ 10:37a, Brian Dessent wrote:

> David Byron wrote:
> 
> > /usr/share/aclocal/libsmi.m4:8: warning: underquoted
> > definition of AM_PATH_LIBSMI
> >
> > /usr/share/aclocal/libmcrypt.m4:17: warning: underquoted
> > definition of AM_PATH_LIBMCRYPT
> >
> > /usr/share/aclocal/cppunit.m4:4: warning: underquoted
> > definition of AM_PATH_CPPUNIT
>
> This has got nothing to do with Cygwin.  You have some
> packages installed that include m4 macros that generate
> warnings due to obsolete/improper style.  It should be
> reported to whoever wrote libsmi, libmcrypt, cppunit, etc.
> You'd get those same warnings on any system where those
> libraries were installed, Cygwin or otherwise.

Thanks for setting me straight.  If I get motivated I'll track down the
authors of those packages and send a patch.

-DB