Bug 228851 – eaclocal from autotools.eclass may add unexpanded macros to aclocal call

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Benjamin Bannier 2008-06-22 08:25:24 UTC]

For some reason eaclocal() from autotools.eclass parses ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS from selected files and adds them as arguments to the aclocal call (thus breaking standard autotools behavior?).

This may crash emerge if the flags contain unexpanded macros, though a manual aclocal will run fine.

For this problem in the wild see e.g. bug 222303.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Benjamin Bannier 2008-06-22 08:29:58 UTC]

Created attachment 157977 [details, diff]
patch against /usr/portage/eclass/autotools.eclass

Strip macros from arguments to aclocal call.

I do not really understand the intention of giving extra arguments to the aclocal call, but this patch fixes the problem I was facing.

Still, why is eaclocal behaving different than aclocal?

Cheers,

Benjamin

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2008-06-22 10:31:50 UTC]

ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS cannot have configure-expanded values in it.  if it does, that package is broken.  fix the package.

running standard autotools too will break, so that is not a valid argument.