On Thursday, June 01, 2000, Tom Tromey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Ossama> $ ./configure
> Ossama> loading cache ./config.cache
> Ossama> checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
> Ossama> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> Ossama> ./configure: line 1441: syntax error near unexpected token `"(c'
> Ossama> ./configure: line 1441: `  echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6'
> 
> You'd have to look at the configure code, see what is wrong, and then
> trace it back to the m4 macro.  It might be a bug in the autoconf you
> are using.  Hard to say without more info.

Hmmm, come to think of it, I may have gotten this cryptic error from a
mis-quoted ',' (comma) in one of my autoconf macros.  In my case, it was
in the third parameter of AC_CHECK_HEADERS.

John

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