FWIW, I just upgraded to 2.69d and hit the same problem: m4:configure.ac:40: Warning: excess arguments to builtin `m4_define' ignored Line 40 is: AC_INIT(GNU MP, GMP_VERSION, [gmp-bugs@xxxxxxxxxx, see https://gmplib.org/manual/Reporting-Bugs.html], gmp) Cheers, Ross On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 14:01, Zack Weinberg <zackw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 5:04 PM Zack Weinberg <zackw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If you could both please test this patch? I would also appreciate a > > second pair of eyes on it -- even with an expanded "AC_INIT with > > unusual strings" test and careful inspection of all the places where > > the AC_PACKAGE_* macros are used, I'm not 100% sure I got everything. > > I'm going to commit this patch tomorrow if I don't hear any more > feedback before then. > > zw