Re: Autoconf & libssl

[Eric Blake]

On 11/10/2011 03:22 PM, Till Elsner wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm experiencing strange problems when using autoreconf together
> with OpenSSL.
> Everything seems to work just fine (autoreconf, ./configure,
> make), until I include libssl. Whenever autoconf is asked to
> check for libssl, autoreconf completes successful, but
> ./configure fails with a "syntax error near unexpected token
> ';'".
> If I remove the libssl check in question, everything is fine
> again.
> I doesn't matter if I use AC_CHECK_LIB or AC_SEARCH_LIBS, the
> error stays the same.
> My autoconf is 2.68, OpenSSL is 1.0.0e.
> Anyone experienced something like this before?

Which package are you configuring?  Most likely, it is a syntax error in 
the particular configure.ac of the package you are using, and not a bug 
in autoconf itself.  You may have better luck asking on the list that 
wrote that configure.ac file.

Can you locate the particular portion of configure that contains the 
syntax error, and the particular lines in configure.ac that generate 
those lines?

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