Re: bad file descriptor / bad substitution

Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs
Organization UCLA Computer Science Department
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On 1/1/21 3:56 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> Is this a simple case of user error (‘AC_CHECK_DECLS’
> should be m4-quoted)

Yes. That AC_CHECK_DECLS expands into a string that contains this line:

   # freestanding implementations, so test against a dummy

and the comma is treated as an argument separator for AC_CHECK_HEADER. 
Quoting fixes the bug.
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