On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 10:25 AM Ross Burton <ross.burton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So I kicked off a world build in OpenEmbedded with autoconf master as of > this morning. Thanks for trying this! > Of note is that Flex and Nasm are both failing in similar > ways with autoconf post-2.69: Could you please file issues in the Savannah bug tracker (https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=additem&group=autoconf) for this and any other problems you find? This will ensure that I don't forget about them. > nasm: > checking for uintptr_t... yes > ./configure: line 6400: syntax error near unexpected token `do' > ./configure: line 6400: `do :' [...] I think the line number in the syntax error must be wrong; there's no "do :" anywhere in the snippet you quoted. I'll poke at this some later today, but can you tell me where to download a tarball of the exact same version of Nasm that you are testing? I want to be sure I'm looking at the same thing. > The flex issue is worked around by picking this commit from flex git: > > https://github.com/westes/flex/commit/c42de062bbdc7c31d7181c10a74202d493280ada > > That refers to a mail sent to bug-autoconf in February 2018, with no reply: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2018-02/msg00005.html Hm, I don't immediately see how we get from misbehavior in autoheader with 'dnl' inside an AC_CHECK_THINGS([...]) list, to syntax errors in configure. Again, I'd like to poke at this some myself, can you tell me where to get the exact version of flex that you are testing? zw
