Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I discovered that gnulib-tool requires autoconf-2.59c or newer
> for autoconf's m4_foreach_w macro. This change lets
> gnulib-tool work also with autoconf-2.59.
>
> This was necessary for libvirt, when running their ./autogen.sh
> script on a RHEL5 system, which has autoconf-2.59:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.libvirt/4115
>
> Here's the patch:
>
> Support versions of autoconf prior to 2.59c.
> * gnulib-tool (func_emit_initmacro_done): Define m4_foreach_w
> if it is not already defined.
Sorry about that.
There was a syntax error (missing close-quote) in my first patch.
diff --git a/gnulib-tool b/gnulib-tool
index 5d3a785..f071d73 100755
--- a/gnulib-tool
+++ b/gnulib-tool
@@ -1963,6 +1963,13 @@ func_emit_initmacro_done ()
echo " AS_LITERAL_IF([\$1], [${macro_prefix}_LIBSOURCES([\$1.c])])dnl"
echo " ${macro_prefix}_LIBOBJS=\"\$${macro_prefix}_LIBOBJS
\$1.\$ac_objext\""
echo "])"
+
+ echo "# m4_foreach_w is provided by autoconf-2.59c and later."
+ echo "# This definition is to accommodate developers using versions"
+ echo "# of autoconf older than that."
+ echo "m4_ifndef([m4_foreach_w],"
+ echo " [m4_define([m4_foreach_w],"
+ echo " [m4_foreach([\$1], m4_split(m4_normalize([\$2]), [ ]), [\$3])])])"
echo
echo "# Like AC_REPLACE_FUNCS, except that the module name goes"
echo "# into ${macro_prefix}_LIBOBJS instead of into LIBOBJS."
--
1.5.3.7.1006.g8c6a6
