On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 5:05 PM Arsen Arsenović <arsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Frederic Berat <fberat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Some progress on this, it looks like, at least for libpng, there is at one > > place where the "Port AC_LANG_CALL" seems to be the culprit. > > Specifically, the "," in the C comment, is interpreted by M4 as argument > > split which in turn leads to the syntax error. > > FWIW, I found this issue also while working on Gentoo, and I think the > solution is to fix upstreams (and possibly add more commas so that this > gets detected that much more often ;). I haven't looked at your exact > examples (low on time right now), but instances I looked at were always > underquoting in the (now broken) configure scripts, so I'm not inclined > to assume this is an autotools regression yet, though I'm unsure whether > the maintainers would classify it as such. > In principle, I'd say fair enough. Although, would it hurt to increase quoting within the call itself ? Honestly, I don't believe my workaround is a good one, I simply removed the comma in another local version. > Hopefully this issue is not too frequent for that to become quickly > unsustainable, but I can't tell yet, I've only managed to send one patch > on this topic so far. So far, I've found around 70 packages affected by this in Fedora, I don't know about Gentoo. > > Have a wonderful evening. > -- > Arsen Arsenović
