Re: aclocal from freshest Automake fails to work with freshest Autoconf

[akim]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 12:44:57AM +0400, Alexey Mahotkin wrote:
> 
> [ please keep me in Cc: list as I am not subscribed ]
> 
> I'm now being bitten by the fact that aclocal from CVS Automake fails
> to properly extract macros from the CVS Autoconf *.m4 files.
> 
> I've installed the autoconf 2.52 to /usr/local/autoconf/, and I am
> trying to run the aclocal 1.4f (or fresh from CVS) using the cmdline:
> 
>       $ aclocal --verbose -I /usr/local/autoconf/share/autoconf/
> 
> I get the following error (relevant lines are left, but could provide
> with exact output).  Please note how it treats as macros strings like
> "$1", "AC_LANG_PREPROC(C", or "AC_LANG_COMPILER(Fortran 77".  I think
> there is some problem with $ac_defun_rx in aclocal, but I can't at the
> moment understand it and probably try to fix.

I think you have not understood the purpose of aclocal: import *non*
Autoconf macros.  Do not feed aclocal with Autoconf files.  Just
don't pass -I at all.  And then run `autoconf', it will, magically, find
Autoconf macros ;)