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Bug 179351 - dev-libs/check-0.9.5: bogus m4age in /usr/share/aclocal/check.m4 breaks autoconf
Summary: dev-libs/check-0.9.5: bogus m4age in /usr/share/aclocal/check.m4 breaks autoconf
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Development (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High major (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
URL: http://www.mail-archive.com/autoconf@...
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Reported: 2007-05-21 19:39 UTC by Ed Catmur
Modified: 2008-12-05 04:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
fix-AM_PATCH_CHECK-breakage.patch (fix-AM_PATCH_CHECK-breakage.patch,500 bytes, patch)
2007-05-21 19:46 UTC, Ed Catmur 		Details | Diff
fix-AM_PATCH_CHECK-breakage.patch (fix-AM_PATCH_CHECK-breakage.patch,886 bytes, patch)
2008-03-24 21:44 UTC, Ed Catmur 		Details | Diff
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Description Ed Catmur 2007-05-21 19:39:02 UTC 
See http://www.mail-archive.com/autoconf@gnu.org/msg15264.html for a proper explanation.

Anyway, /usr/share/aclocal/check.m4 has

AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_CHECK],
[
  AC_MSG_WARN([[AM_PATH_CHECK() is deprecated]])
  AC_MSG_WARN([[use PKG_CHECK_MODULES([CHECK], [check >= 0.9.4]) instead]])

which is supposed to output the relevant warning messages on autoconf, but instead goes horribly wrong and "breaks any package using the AM_PATH_CHECK macro in configure.ac".

The solution as described in the URL is to break up the AM_PATH_CHECK and PKG_CHECK_MODULES with the `@&t@' null quadrigraph.

Patch to follow.
Comment 1 Ed Catmur 2007-05-21 19:46:05 UTC 
Created attachment 119921 [details, diff]
fix-AM_PATCH_CHECK-breakage.patch

From: http://check.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/check/trunk/check.m4?r1=333&r2=401&view=patch
Comment 2 Ed Catmur 2007-05-21 19:48:22 UTC 
oh, and here's the Debian bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395466

though the patch they used is sucky, apparently; quadrigraphs are better.
Comment 3 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-09-01 08:56:08 UTC 
reassigning to proper alias
Comment 4 Ed Catmur 2008-03-24 21:44:17 UTC 
Created attachment 147179 [details, diff]
fix-AM_PATCH_CHECK-breakage.patch

Update.
Comment 5 Ryan Hill (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-12-05 04:55:05 UTC 
Fixed, thanks.