Re: zsh and autoconf-2.50

[Jos Backus <josb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:01:46PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> That's pretty silly.  This is like C++ generating an error if you #undef
> a constant that has never been #define'd.  Did autoconf-2.50 redefine the
> m4 undefine function, or did something change in a new version of m4?

It's strange indeed. This is with a freshly built m4-1.4 (haven't seen
anything newer).
 
> My m4 info page says:
> 
>    It is not an error for NAME to have no macro definition.  In that
> case, `undefine' does nothing.

So does mine.
 
> Anyway, those undefines are probably entirely extraneous anyway, so try
> just deleting them.
 
That fixes it (obviously).

Btw, running ``./configure'' yields

    configure: creating ./config.status
    ./config.status: syntax error at line 1063: `end of file' unexpected

before printing the configuration. That doesn't look normal. The file has
1062 lines and the end looks like

#
# CONFIG_COMMANDS section.
#
for ac_file in : $CONFIG_COMMANDS; do test "x$ac_file" = x: && continue
  ac_dest=`echo "$ac_file" | sed 's,:.*,,'`
  ac_source=`echo "$ac_file" | sed 's,[^:]*:,,'`

  case $ac_dest in
    default ) \
test -z "$CONFIG_HEADERS" || echo > stamp-h ;;
  esac
done

{ (exit 0); exit 0; }

As a result, some other files aren't being generated (e.g. the Makefile).

Thanks,
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