Re: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([int *]) is error in autoconf-2.66

[Eric Blake]

----- "Nishio Futoshi" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your patch.  But i think that it is not enough.
> 
> AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([int *]) is not define #define SIZEOF_INT_P
> in config.h.  In config.log "#define SIZEOF_INT_P
> $ac_cv_sizeof_int_p"
> was written.
> 
> I tried to write AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([int]) and AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([int *])
> in configure.ac
> 
> config.log
> #define SIZEOF_INT 4
> #define SIZEOF_INT_P $ac_cv_sizeof_int_p
> 
> config.h.in
> /* The size of `int', as computed by sizeof. */
> #undef SIZEOF_INT
> 
> ( there is not SIZEOF_INT_P )

Indeed, I spent a bit more time, and reproduced your follow-on
issue.  Here's the complete patch (the same as before in types.m4,
plus a new patch in m4sh.m4), which should resolve the issue.

diff --git a/lib/autoconf/types.m4 b/lib/autoconf/types.m4
index ee07148..9f482da 100644
--- a/lib/autoconf/types.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/types.m4
@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ Remove this warning and the `AC_CACHE_CHECK' when you 
adjust the code.])
 # AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(TYPE, [IGNORED], [INCLUDES = DEFAULT-INCLUDES])
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------
 AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_SIZEOF],
-[AS_LITERAL_IF([$1], [],
+[AS_LITERAL_IF(m4_translit([[$1]], [*], [p]), [],
               [m4_fatal([$0: requires literal arguments])])]dnl
 [# The cast to long int works around a bug in the HP C Compiler
 # version HP92453-01 B.11.11.23709.GP, which incorrectly rejects
diff --git a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4 b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
index e1d03d9..051107a 100644
--- a/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
+++ b/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4
@@ -1779,7 +1779,7 @@ m4_defun_init([AS_TR_SH],
 [_$0(m4_expand([$1]))])
 
 m4_define([_AS_TR_SH],
-[_AS_LITERAL_IF([$1], [         ][
+[_AS_LITERAL_IF([$1], [*+][     ][
 ])([], [$0_INDIR], [$0_LITERAL])([$1])])
 
 m4_define([_AS_TR_SH_LITERAL],
@@ -1812,7 +1812,7 @@ m4_defun_init([AS_TR_CPP],
 [_$0(m4_expand([$1]))])
 
 m4_define([_AS_TR_CPP],
-[_AS_LITERAL_IF([$1], [         ][
+[_AS_LITERAL_IF([$1], [*][      ][
 ])([], [$0_INDIR], [$0_LITERAL])([$1])])
 
 m4_define([_AS_TR_CPP_LITERAL],


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