Re: iterating over arguments

[Sam Steingold]

> * Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> [2009-09-13 18:37:34 +0200]:
>
> How about a large one then.  I have no problem checking out the
> complete clisp source tree, then applying a patch, then bootstrapping
> it with some sequence of commands, and then looking at some failure,
> but in that case I'd prefer as copy-n-pasteable instructions as
> possible; presumably you already have all that information (but I have
> never built the clisp tree before).

here is what works (or, rather, does not) for me:
cvs -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/clisp login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/clisp co -P clisp
cd clisp
>>> modify src/m4/clisp.m4 to call m4_toupper
make -f Makefile.devel check-configures

it hangs on this command:
aclocal --output=src/aclocal.m4 -I /home/sds/src/clisp/current/src/m4 \
                 -I /home/sds/src/clisp/current/src/glm4  -I 
/home/sds/src/clisp/current/modules/regexp/glm4  -I 
/home/sds/src/clisp/current/modules/syscalls/glm4  -I 
/home/sds/src/clisp/current/modules/wildcard/glm4

note that I have a fully updated ubuntu, i.e.:

autoconf 2.63-2ubuntu1
automake 1:1.10.2-0ubuntu3.09.04
m4 1.4.11-1

> This is probably a bug in the definition of m4_toupper (which has an
> optimization that may be invalid in some cases), so let's not drop the
> ball on this until we know.

I won't.

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