Bug 449973

Summary: Strange m4_if releated error message from autotest
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jochen Schmitt <jochen>
Component: autoconfAssignee: Karsten Hopp <karsten>
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Description Jochen Schmitt 2008-06-04 15:28:02 UTC
When I tryp to build gnu-smalltalk with autoconf-2.62 I will get the following
error messages:

[s4504kr@zeus ~]$ cd cvs/fedora/gnu-smalltalk/F-9/smalltalk-3.0.3/
[s4504kr@zeus smalltalk-3.0.3]$ cd tests/
[s4504kr@zeus tests]$ make
/bin/sh
/home/s4504kr/cvs/fedora/gnu-smalltalk/F-9/smalltalk-3.0.3/build-aux/missing
--run autom4te --language=autotest -I '.' -o testsuite.tmp testsuite.at
testsuite.tmp:669: error: possibly undefined macro: m4_if
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
make: *** [testsuite] Fehler 1

This error occurs only with the version 2.62 of autoconf. Earlier version of
autoconf works fine.

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2008-06-06 09:30:43 UTC
reported upstream, fix available at
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=3ac7ceb0c2dfd023e0e9e944da6825b6bd676568

Fixed in autoconf-2.62-2

Comment 2 Eric Blake 2008-06-06 12:03:48 UTC
Meanwhile, you may want to file a bug with the gnu-smalltalk package, informing
them that they can change their package to work around pristine upstream
autoconf 2.62 by altering their offending sequence (something like this):

AT_KEYWORDS([m4_if([$1], [dummy], [], [$1 ])dummy])

to instead expand the m4_if prior to invoking AT_KEYWORDS, like this:

AT_KEYWORDS(m4_if([$1], [dummy], [], [$1 ])[dummy])