Re: 2.49e problems with gcc

[Akim Demaille]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Van Holder <address@hidden> writes:

Tim> The only call is

Tim>   gcc_AC_CHECK_PROG_VER(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, --version, [GNU
Tim> texinfo.* \([0-9][0-9.]*\)], [4.*])

Hm, looks good.

Tim> This would put the texinfo pattern inside the special << >>
Tim> quotes, which might be what confused autoconf (though I'm hardly
Tim> an expert in such things).

Is it autoconf or autoheader which is lost?

What can happen, and sometimes does, it that when we trace a
changequote appears, and since traces are later processed by M4, some
symbol might become unquoted when they should have been.


They don't use aclocal?

Index: aclocal.m4
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/aclocal.m4,v
retrieving revision 1.40.4.1
diff -u -r1.40.4.1 aclocal.m4
--- aclocal.m4  2001/02/18 05:41:46     1.40.4.1
+++ aclocal.m4  2001/05/11 15:49:26
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@
   ac_tr_decl=HAVE_DECL_`echo $ac_func | tr 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' 
'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'`
 changequote([, ])dnl

You should also get rid of this one.


 gcc_AC_CHECK_DECL($ac_func,
-  [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED($ac_tr_decl, 1) $2],
-  [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED($ac_tr_decl, 0) $3],
+  [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED($ac_tr_decl, 1,
+    [Define to 1 if we found this declaration otherwise define to 0.]) $2],
+  [AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED($ac_tr_decl, 0,
+    [Define to 1 if we found this declaration otherwise define to 0.]) $3],
 dnl It is possible that the include files passed in here are local headers
 dnl which supply a backup declaration for the relevant prototype based on
 dnl the definition of (or lack of) the HAVE_DECL_ macro.  If so, this test
@@ -53,14 +55,7 @@
 #define $ac_tr_decl 1
   $4
 )
-done
-dnl Automatically generate config.h entries via autoheader.
-if test x = y ; then
-  patsubst(translit([$1], [a-z], [A-Z]), [\w+],
-    AC_DEFINE([HAVE_DECL_\&], 1,
-      [Define to 1 if we found this declaration otherwise define to 0.]))dnl
-fi
-])
+done])


Nice patch, but I don't think it works.  I'd be surprised if you
actually have the #undef templates in config.h.in since you pass an sh
var, which is opaque to autoheader.  You need `static' values for
autoheader.  That's why they had the last chunk.

Use

-if test x = y ; then
-    AC_DEFINE(translit([HAVE_DECL_$1], [a-z], [A-Z]), 1,
-      [Define to 1 if we found this declaration otherwise define to 0.]))dnl
-fi