Bug 51367

Summary:	m4_regexp and m4_patsubst are deprecated and need to be sed'ed out
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stony <stonyy>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stony 2004-05-18 01:44:57 UTC

The m4 library that is installed by default, 
sirbarton /var# m4 --version
GNU m4 1.4
has a bunch of support macros that autoheader, version
sirbarton /var# autoheader --version
Autoconf version 2.13
does not like because they use m4_regexp and m4_patsubst.  The fix is to sed them out for the suggested replacement, regexp and patsubst.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 19:21:39 UTC

no real info here ...

m4 installs a binary, no support files

we've changed our autotools to run newer by default rather than older (meaning 2.59 instead of 2.13)

re-open when you've provided actual output of what you're talking about