Re: [PATCH] {msvc} Regenerate with autoconf 2.67

[Eric Blake]

[dropping all but bug-autoconf]

On 09/15/2010 09:15 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> [adding bug-autoconf]
>
> On 09/15/2010 09:13 AM, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > Ouch! On my Debian box, I had to build my own autoconf 2.67 from sources
> > to use with automake, since at least this chunk of the debian patch:
> >
> > --- autoconf-2.67.orig/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
> > +++ autoconf-2.67/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
> > @@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
> > [m4_append_uniq([_AS_CLEANUP],
> > [m4_divert_text([M4SH-INIT-FN], [_AS_ERROR_PREPARE[]])])],
> > [as_fn_error m4_default([$2], [$?])
> > "_AS_QUOTE([$1])"m4_ifval(AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD,
> > - [ "$LINENO" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD])])
> > + [ "$LINENO" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD ])])
>
> How nice of Debian to not tell upstream about the issue :(

Does anyone know which Debian bug this patch is supposed to address? 
And, is there any reason why:

[ "$LINENO" AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD[]])])

instead of inserting a spurious space wasn't chosen as a way to patch 
things?

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