Bug 57653

Summary: 2.52x stricter on underquoting
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: vvs <vvs009>
Component: autoconfAssignee: Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Description vvs 2001-12-18 10:29:30 UTC 
Description of Problem:

autoconf did produce broken configure script.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

autoconf-2.52-4

How Reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. save attached configure.in file
2. touch Makefile.am
3. aclocal
4. autoheader
5. automake -a
6. autoconf
7. ./configure

Actual Results:

Syntax error.

Expected Results:

Successful termination.

Additional Information:
	
The above procedure works correctly with autoconf-2.13 from Red Hat 7.2.
Comment 1 vvs 2001-12-18 10:32:13 UTC 
Created attachment 40888 [details]
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Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2001-12-19 05:30:34 UTC 
Reproduced. This seems to be a bug in the development version which
unfortunately has crept into rawhide.  Perhaps I will revert it to the 2.52 release.
Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2001-12-20 02:21:59 UTC 
On second thoughts.  Your example is a case of "underquoting".
The macro calls need to be quoted properly for safe expansion (see "Autoconf
Language" in the autoconf manual).

eg like this:

AC_CHECK_LIB(z, gzsetparams,
             [AC_CHECK_HEADER(zlib.h,,[AC_MSG_ERROR(zlib headers not found)])],
             [AC_MSG_ERROR(zlib library not found)])

The fact that this worked under 2.52 and 2.13 was just pure luck and should not
be relied on.
Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2002-01-31 01:32:28 UTC 
*** Bug 59077 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***