On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:29:13PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 10/24/2012 02:01 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > When attempting to bootstrap grep.git using > > autoconf.git (v2.69-37-gb9dc6b6), I see this failure: > > > > autoreconf: running: aclocal -I m4 -I m4 > > configure.ac:81: error: AC_PROG_CC cannot be called after AM_PROG_CC_C_O > > Yeowch. Thanks for reporting this. The problem arises because > Automake's AM_PROG_CC_C_O redefines AC_PROG_CC. Ouch. > We don't want to discourage people from using AC_PROG_CC, > so this is an Autoconf bug. I installed this into Autoconf: >... You also have to exclude AC_PROG_CC_C89 and AC_PROG_CC_C99 (similar to AC_PROG_CC_STDC) in au_exclude_list in tests/mktests.sh to fix the "make check" errors this causes. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf