bug in autoconf deb v 2.13-25?

[Christopher Gorman]

Hey,

I have found what I think to be a bug in the debian autoconf package 
v2.13-25. 

The problem that I have occurs when I use the AC_C_CONST macro.  I've
attached the code that both 2.13-23 and 2.13-25 generated when the
AC_C_CONST macro was defined in my configure.in.  The following is a diff
between the two pieces of generated C code.  

phantom:~$ diff -uN conftest-2.13-23.C conftest-2.13-25.C
--- conftest-2.13-23.C  Wed Feb 28 14:43:28 2001
+++ conftest-2.13-25.C  Wed Feb 28 17:22:48 2001
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 int main() {
 
 /* Ultrix mips cc rejects this.  */
-typedef int charset[2]; const charset x = {0,0};
+typedef int charset[2]; const charset x;
 /* SunOS 4.1.1 cc rejects this.  */
 char const *const *ccp;
 char **p; 

This syntax error causes gcc to fail, with

phantom:~$ gcc -c conftest-2.13-25.C
conftest-2.13-25.C: In function `int main()':
conftest-2.13-25.C:6: uninitialized const `x'

which causes the config.status file to add a -Dconst to the 

address@hidden@%-Dconst= %g 

regexp which causes all the const(s) in the build to be redefined as
nothing.  

Thanks

Chris 

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conftest-2.13-25.C
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conftest-2.13-23.C
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