Re: Bad configure scripts generated with Autoconf 2.52 and 2.53

[Patrick Hartling]

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Patrick Hartling writes:
>
>
> > autoupdate is interesting, but I don't necessarily want to require the
> > use of versions >=2.50 just yet.
>
>
> Well, you can't have it both ways.

So I can't have a configure.in that works with 2.13 and 2.5x?  I don't 
plan on using any of the 2.5x-specific macros until we are ready to 
commit to 2.5x exclusively.

> > Even so, running autoupdate and adding []'s liberally does not fix the
> > syntax errors in the generated 'configure'.  I've attached the
> > resulting configure.in.
>
>
> Quoting the arguments correctly and inserting the missing second argument
> of AC_CHECK_LIB makes it work for me:
>
> AC_INIT
> AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([.])
> AC_PROG_CC
> AC_CHECK_LIB([m], [main],
>    [AC_CHECK_HEADER([math.h], [echo "Hello"],
>       [AC_MSG_ERROR([*** Header not found (oops) ***])])])

Oops, I forgot that second argument... I made that example a little too 
quickly.  I'll give this a try.  Thanks.

 -Patrick


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