Today I am trying autoconf-2.69c with GraphicsMagick's configure.ac
and am only encountering utter failure.
A great many macros (still used to provide backward compatibility) are
now declared as obsolete. I ran 'autoupdate' and see that
AC_TRY_COMPILE statements were changed to use new syntax. The problem
is that with the replacement code it inserted I get this m4 error:
libtoolize: found LT_INIT invocation
m4:configure.ac:1045: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change it
autom4te: error: /usr/gnu/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1
m4:configure.ac:1045: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change it
autom4te: error: /usr/gnu/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
autoheader: error: '/usr/local/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1
m4:configure.ac:1045: recursion limit of 1024 exceeded, use -L<N> to change it
autom4te: error: /usr/gnu/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
I am also concerned that the first active line after executing
'autoupdate' is this:
AC_PREREQ([2.69c])
Presumably this means that version 2.69c is required to re-autoconf
the configure script. I certainly could not impose this overwhelming
burden on my users. If the resulting output can not be used with the
prevailing version (2.69) then I can not use it! I don't see now a
new release can obviate the stable release which preceded it and is
still in primary use!
Under OpenIndiana I still get 6 test failures.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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