Re: Strange build error on Mac OS X (10.6.3)

[Eric Blake]

On 05/11/2010 03:59 PM, Adam Mercer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am the maintainer for the autoconf port in MacPorts and a user has
> reported a strange build error to me which I cannot duplicate:
> 
> Making all in emacs
> WARNING: Warnings can be ignored. :-)
> if test "emacs" != no; then \
>           set x; \
>           list='autoconf-mode.el autotest-mode.el'; for p in $list; do \
>             if test -f "$p"; then d=; else d="./"; fi; \
>             set x "$@" "$d$p"; shift; \
>           done; \
>           shift; \
>           EMACS="emacs" /bin/sh ../../build-aux/elisp-comp "$@" || exit 1; \
>         else : ; fi
> touch: illegal option -- b

Sounds like the configure file might be corrupted?

> 
> Has anyone seen anything like this before? The user is running 64bit
> Mac OS X 10.6.3, and Xcode 3.2.2.

Did they rerun autoconf?  If so, what versions of autoconf and m4?  I
know that m4 1.4.10 (several versions ago) was broken for BSD and Mac
OS, and generated corrupt configure files if they were larger than half
a megabyte, so smaller projects did not suffer, but large projects like
emacs would be susceptible.  But that was quite a while ago.

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