Re: autoupdate: "ERROR: end of file in string"

On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 at 01:56, Marko Lindqvist <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Running autoupdate for any active freeciv branch (git clone
> https://github.com/freeciv/freeciv.git) results in an error like:
>
> /usr/bin/m4:/tmp/au5cPMMa/ac.m4:1100: ERROR: end of file in string
> autoupdate: error: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
>
> I'm on Debian Testing (Bullseye). I've tested with both autoupdate
> that Debian ships (autoconf-2.69) and one of self-compiled
> autoconf-2.70.

 This seems to be related in AC_ARG_VAR() in a m4-file. If I remove line
AC_ARG_VAR([MOCCMD], [QT 5 moc command (autodetected it if not set)])
 from m4/qt.m4, autoupdate works. The line can be added directly to
configure.ac without similar problems.
 For a test, I tried moving the line to some other m4/*.m4 files, and
autoupdate failed in these cases.


 - ML