Re: gettext 0.11.2: Using autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.1

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 23:21:02 +0200 (MET DST)
> From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <address@hidden>

> configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `test 
> "${ac_cv_lib[]Name+set}" = set': Unmatched [ or [^
> configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `$ac_cv_lib[]Name': 
> Unmatched [ or [^
> configure.in:111: /usr/bin/m4: Bad regular expression: `$ac_cv_lib[]Name': 
> Unmatched [ or [^

I don't have that problem.  What does `m4 --version' say?

> probably due to a missing quotation somewhere,

Yes, that's quite possible.

> so I bulk-converted all
> `[]' occurences to address@hidden@' as using brackets makes scripts fragile 
> due to
> their quoting properties. 

But this breaks autoconf 2.13, and it makes the code harder to read.

I would rather find out why m4 is not working for you, and fix that
problem, as the error messages could be a symptom of a more important
bug.  It could be a bug in m4/lib-link.m4, or it could be something
else.