On Mon, 2023-03-27 at 08:38 -0700, Jim Meyering wrote: > We're overdue for a new release, so here's a snapshot in preparation > for that, which I want to call 2.73 (skipping 2.72). There has never > been an autoconf-2.72 release, yet `git describe` now prints 2.72c and > has been printing strings like v2.72a-92-g8db00aa8 for years. > > If you maintain a package that uses autoconf and can make a release soon, > please install this and use it to bootstrap its configs. We'd love to > expose any issues before we make the release. I've already done that > with grep-3.10, so far without incident. I work on Yocto Project which cross compiles Linux systems from sources. We run autoreconf against most things. I tried the 2.72c tarball and found three things which failed. libarchive 3.6.2 at configure time: | checking for int16_t... no | checking for uint16_t... no | checking for uint8_t... no | checking for gcc options needed to detect all undeclared functions... cannot detect | configure: error: in '/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/libarchive-native/3.6.2-r0/build': | configure: error: cannot make gcc report undeclared builtins | See 'config.log' for more details | NOTE: The following config.log files may provide further information. | NOTE: /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/libarchive-native/3.6.2-r0/build/config.log gettext 0.21.1: | autoreconf: running: aclocal --system-acdir=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal/ --automake-acdir=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/share/aclocal-1.16 -I /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-runtime/m4 -I /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-tools/m4 --force -I m4 -I ../m4 -I gnulib-m4 | autoreconf: running: /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf --include=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-runtime/m4 --include=/media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/gettext-0.21.1/gettext-tools/m4 --force | configure.ac:113: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to allow cross compiling | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... | gnulib-m4/calloc.m4:18: _AC_FUNC_CALLOC_IF is expanded from... | gnulib-m4/calloc.m4:57: gl_FUNC_CALLOC_GNU is expanded from... | gnulib-m4/gnulib-comp.m4:213: gl_INIT is expanded from... | configure.ac:113: the top level | configure.ac:113: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to allow cross compiling | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... | gnulib-m4/getopt.m4:50: gl_GETOPT_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from... | gnulib-m4/getopt.m4:8: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX is expanded from... | gnulib-m4/gnulib-comp.m4:213: gl_INIT is expanded from... | configure.ac:113: the top level | configure:8321: error: possibly undefined macro: _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES | If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. | See the Autoconf documentation. | autoreconf: error: /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/gettext-native/0.21.1-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 | ERROR: autoreconf execution failed. and a similar autoreconf failure from bison 3.8.2: | autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gtkdoc | autoreconf: running: /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/bison-native/3.8.2-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf --include=./m4 --force | configure.ac:285: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to allow cross compiling | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... | m4/calloc.m4:18: _AC_FUNC_CALLOC_IF is expanded from... | m4/calloc.m4:57: gl_FUNC_CALLOC_GNU is expanded from... | m4/gnulib-comp.m4:385: gl_INIT is expanded from... | configure.ac:285: the top level | configure.ac:285: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to allow cross compiling | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... | m4/getopt.m4:48: gl_GETOPT_CHECK_HEADERS is expanded from... | m4/getopt.m4:8: gl_FUNC_GETOPT_POSIX is expanded from... | m4/gnulib-comp.m4:385: gl_INIT is expanded from... | configure.ac:285: the top level | configure.ac:285: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE called without default to allow cross compiling | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2981: AC_RUN_IFELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:690: _AS_IF_ELSE is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/m4sugar/m4sh.m4:697: AS_IF is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2249: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from... | ../autoconf-2.72c/lib/autoconf/general.m4:2270: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from... | m4/posix_spawn.m4:132: gl_POSIX_SPAWN_WORKS is expanded from... | m4/posix_spawn.m4:13: gl_POSIX_SPAWN_BODY is expanded from... | m4/posix_spawn.m4:8: gl_POSIX_SPAWN is expanded from... | m4/gnulib-comp.m4:385: gl_INIT is expanded from... | configure.ac:285: the top level | configure:8273: error: possibly undefined macro: _AC_SYS_LARGEFILE_TEST_INCLUDES | If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow. | See the Autoconf documentation. | autoreconf: error: /media/build/poky/build/tmp/work/x86_64-linux/bison-native/3.8.2-r0/recipe-sysroot-native/usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1 | ERROR: autoreconf execution failed. | WARNING: exit code 1 from a shell command. I haven't dug into any of the issues yet so I don't know if there is a simple fix or I'm missing something obvious. Cheers, Richard
