Re: AC_INIT regression in 2.69c
Zack Weinberg <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 4:40 PM Jani Välimaa <[email protected]> wrote: > autoreconf seems to be failing with autoconf-2.69c with the following > AC_INIT in configure.ac. > > AC_INIT([test], > [m4_esyscmd([build-aux/git-version-gen .tarball-version])], > [[email protected]]) > > Same happens also with other m4_* macros wrapped with []. This is the same as https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110349 . See the threads linked from that bug for further discussion. In this case, you really _shouldn't_ wrap the m4_esyscmd invocation in [], because it should only be executed once.