From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28566 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2001 07:26:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 28392 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2001 07:26:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 28 Nov 2001 07:26:07 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE2B3DC3; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 02:26:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C04918B.6030209@cygnus.com> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:53:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20011020 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Eli Zaretskii , amodra@bigpond.net.au, drow@mvista.com Subject: Re: [5.1] Re: po/POTFILES.in doesn't exist References: <3B707412.9080906@cygnus.com> <20010807161144.A28818@nevyn.them.org> <3BB2AC9A.1080306@cygnus.com> <20011002232138.L1019@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <3BB9E5AF.2050207@cygnus.com> <2593-Tue02Oct2001190537+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3BC9DE01.2030609@cygnus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00194.txt.bz2 > Sorry about the long delay, I've been way behind in my GDB e-mailing > folders :-( > > On Oct 14, 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> cd /home/scratch/51/gdb/src/bfd && autoconf >> configure.in:8: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX >> configure.in:8: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX >> autoconf: Undefined macros: >> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG > > > Which version of autoconf was this? The one in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils that everyone is ment to use when re-autoconfing BFD. > This last error is generally a symptom of under-quoted macro > invocations in configure.in or aclocal.m4. Typical scenario is a > construct such as: > > AC_FOO(AC_BAR(...)) > > The correct way to write this is: > > AC_FOO([AC_BAR([...])]) > ^ ^ ^ ^ > > I.e., every argument of every macro should be enclosed in quotation > brackets. Sometimes, you may get on without so much quoting, in the > hopes that the argument of the macro won't contain any active content > (i.e., no other m4 macro). But, if any macro argument does, you may > observe this kind of problem. Ok, thanks. I suspect the faulty definition is bundled in with the gettext that everyone is ment to use when re-building GDB (see ftp directory above). Hmm, perhaps it is time to kill that gettext snapshot. Andrew From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: Alexandre Oliva Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com, Eli Zaretskii , amodra@bigpond.net.au, drow@mvista.com Subject: Re: [5.1] Re: po/POTFILES.in doesn't exist Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C04918B.6030209@cygnus.com> References: <3B707412.9080906@cygnus.com> <20010807161144.A28818@nevyn.them.org> <3BB2AC9A.1080306@cygnus.com> <20011002232138.L1019@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <3BB9E5AF.2050207@cygnus.com> <2593-Tue02Oct2001190537+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> <3BC9DE01.2030609@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00301.html Message-ID: <20011127232600.0In7KMne0WuUXZlpXCKfud7r2cJr5JdJ6bQ3ar7sUhc@z> > Sorry about the long delay, I've been way behind in my GDB e-mailing > folders :-( > > On Oct 14, 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> cd /home/scratch/51/gdb/src/bfd && autoconf >> configure.in:8: AC_TRY_COMPILE was called before AC_ISC_POSIX >> configure.in:8: AC_TRY_RUN was called before AC_ISC_POSIX >> autoconf: Undefined macros: >> ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_FD_MSG > > > Which version of autoconf was this? The one in ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/binutils that everyone is ment to use when re-autoconfing BFD. > This last error is generally a symptom of under-quoted macro > invocations in configure.in or aclocal.m4. Typical scenario is a > construct such as: > > AC_FOO(AC_BAR(...)) > > The correct way to write this is: > > AC_FOO([AC_BAR([...])]) > ^ ^ ^ ^ > > I.e., every argument of every macro should be enclosed in quotation > brackets. Sometimes, you may get on without so much quoting, in the > hopes that the argument of the macro won't contain any active content > (i.e., no other m4 macro). But, if any macro argument does, you may > observe this kind of problem. Ok, thanks. I suspect the faulty definition is bundled in with the gettext that everyone is ment to use when re-building GDB (see ftp directory above). Hmm, perhaps it is time to kill that gettext snapshot. Andrew