I'm trying to port autoconf to z/os, which uses an EBCDIC codeset. I'm having trouble with autoconf where AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE is causing a bad string to be emitted to config.h.in. For example, what should be "HAVE_STRING_H" is appearing as "_____STRING_H". I've traced the problem down to the AS_TR_CPP macro which contains a call to m4_translit as follows: [m4_translit([$1], [*[]]]m4_dquote(m4_defn([m4_cr_letters])m4_defn([m4_cr_not_symbols2]))[, [P[]]]m4_dquote(m4_defn([m4_cr_LETTERS])m4_for(,1,255,,[[_]]))[)]) The second argument uses m4_cr_not_symbols2 which is defined with the m4sugar macro m4_cr_all - the complete character range from 0-255. When tracing the call to m4_translit, I see that the second argument (the one that uses m4_cr_not_symbols2) looks something like this: *[]abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz...<(+|&.........!HAVE_string.h);^/-... The ... represent ranges of mostly unprintable characters. In the middle of the argument, the HAVE_string.h is embedded, inappropriately. Probably unfortunately in the EBCDIC codeset, the characters !,$,*,) are adjacent; it appears as if the $* is being interpolated to "HAVE_string.h". At this point, I'm stuck - I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this, or even report it as a bug. Thanks much, --Steve Goetze _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
