Re: 4-gary-use-ac256-compiler-header-checking.patch

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 05:07:25PM +0100, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
> >  AC_DEFUN([AC_LIBTOOL_SETUP],
> > -[AC_PREREQ(2.50)dnl
> > +[AC_PREREQ(2.56)dnl We use the new compiler based header checking in 2.56
>
> Oh yes!
>
> That means the EGREP hack can be removed.
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool-patches/2003-07/msg00006.html

Except that when I remove it, I can no longer bootstrap libtool at all :-( 
Perhaps the AC_REQUIRE machinery is killing m4? (I am using m4-1.4 for this btw).

] sh -x ./bootstrap
+ find . '(' -name autom4te.cache -o -name libtool ')' -exec rm -r '{}' ';'
find: ./autom4te.cache: No such file or directory
+ : aclocal
+ : automake
+ : autoconf
+ : autoheader
+ touch ltmain.sh
+ touch libtoolize
+ cd libltdl
+ touch ltmain.sh
+ top_srcdir=.
+ acfiles=./libtool.m4
+ AUTOMAKE_FLAGS=--gnu --add-missing --copy
+ cd .
+ rm -f acinclude.m4 aclocal.m4 Makefile configure
+ cat ./libtool.m4
+ aclocal
+ test . = libltdl
+ test . = f77demo
+ eval automake --gnu --add-missing --copy
++ automake --gnu --add-missing --copy
aclocal.m4:8368: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
aclocal.m4:5798: _LT_AC_TAGVAR is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:8368: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
configure.ac: no proper invocation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE was found.
configure.ac: You should verify that configure.ac invokes AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE,
configure.ac: that aclocal.m4 is present in the top-level directory,
configure.ac: and that aclocal.m4 was recently regenerated (using aclocal).
automake: no `Makefile.am' found or specified
+ autoconf
aclocal.m4:8368: error: m4_defn: undefined macro: _m4_divert_diversion
aclocal.m4:5798: _LT_AC_TAGVAR is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:8368: the top level
autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1

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