On 2022-11-17 04:41, Frederic Berat wrote:
They have the following code in their aclocal.m4{,.cross} files:
Does the attached, self-contained configure.ac illustrate the problem for you? I don't want to have to figure out all of Wine.
Also, can you narrow down which Autoconf commit causes Wine's buggy configure.ac to stop working? Is it the attached one?
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configure.ac
Description: application/pkix-attr-cert
From 0c762675366bb7ce256812bbc40aa8afa004f1f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2022 14:19:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug: AC_EGREP_CPP with leading '-' in pattern Also, port AC_EGREP_CPP to AT&T UnixPC. Latter problem reported by Alain Knaff [sr #110657]. * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (AC_EGREP_CPP): Use new _AC_PROG_GREP. Work even if the pattern starts with "-". * lib/autoconf/programs.m4 (_AC_PROG_GREP): New optional arg ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND. (_AC_PROG_EGREP_TRADITIONAL): New macro. --- lib/autoconf/general.m4 | 4 ++-- lib/autoconf/programs.m4 | 22 +++++++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 b/lib/autoconf/general.m4 index 3a0e47b9..5540ae05 100644 --- a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 +++ b/lib/autoconf/general.m4 @@ -2770,13 +2770,13 @@ AU_DEFUN([AC_TRY_CPP], # come early, it is not included in AC_BEFORE checks. AC_DEFUN([AC_EGREP_CPP], [AC_LANG_PREPROC_REQUIRE()dnl -AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_EGREP])dnl +AC_REQUIRE([_AC_PROG_EGREP_TRADITIONAL])dnl AC_LANG_CONFTEST([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[$2]])]) AS_IF([dnl eval is necessary to expand ac_cpp. dnl Ultrix and Pyramid sh refuse to redirect output of eval, so use subshell. (eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD | dnl Quote $1 to prevent m4 from eating character classes - $EGREP "[$1]" >/dev/null 2>&1], + $EGREP_TRADITIONAL "m4_bregexp([$1],[^[$-]],[.?])[$1]" >/dev/null 2>&1], [$3], [$4]) rm -rf conftest* diff --git a/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 b/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 index 67435a9f..f29d6162 100644 --- a/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 +++ b/lib/autoconf/programs.m4 @@ -373,6 +373,21 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for egrep], ac_cv_path_EGREP, AC_SUBST([EGREP]) ])# AC_PROG_EGREP +# _AC_PROG_EGREP_TRADITIONAL +# -------------------------- +# Check for a grep -E program or equivalent. +# Less stringent than AC_PROG_EGREP, as it succeeds even if there +# is no working 'grep' or if the -e option does not work (e.g., AT&T UnixPC). +AC_DEFUN([_AC_PROG_EGREP_TRADITIONAL], +[AC_CACHE_CHECK([for egrep -e], [ac_cv_path_EGREP_TRADITIONAL], + [_AC_PROG_GREP([EGREP_TRADITIONAL], [grep ggrep], + [-E 'EGR(EP|AC)_TRADITIONAL$'], [:]) + AS_IF([test "$ac_cv_path_EGREP_TRADITIONAL"], + [ac_cv_path_EGREP_TRADITIONAL="$ac_cv_path_EGREP_TRADITIONAL -E"], + [_AC_PROG_GREP([EGREP_TRADITIONAL], [egrep], + ['EGR(EP|AC)_TRADITIONAL$'])])]) + EGREP_TRADITIONAL=$ac_cv_path_EGREP_TRADITIONAL +]) # AC_PROG_FGREP # ------------- @@ -402,15 +417,16 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_PROG_GREP], ]) -# _AC_PROG_GREP(VARIABLE, PROGNAME-LIST, PROG-ARGUMENTS) -# ------------------------------------------------------ +# _AC_PROG_GREP(VARIABLE, PROGNAME-LIST, [PROG-ARGUMENTS], +# [ACTION-IF-NOT-FOUND]) +# -------------------------------------------------------- # Solaris 9 /usr/xpg4/bin/*grep is suitable, but /usr/bin/*grep lacks -e. # AIX silently truncates long lines before matching. # NeXT understands only one -e and truncates long lines. m4_define([_AC_PROG_GREP], [_AC_PATH_PROGS_FEATURE_CHECK([$1], [$2], [_AC_FEATURE_CHECK_LENGTH([ac_path_$1], [ac_cv_path_$1], - ["$ac_path_$1" $3], [$1])], [], + ["$ac_path_$1" $3], [$1])], [$4], [$PATH$PATH_SEPARATOR/usr/xpg4/bin])dnl ]) -- 2.37.2
