Karl Berry wrote:
I don't know if it's supposed to be guaranteed to be set, but if so, evidently that guarantee is failing.
Yes, it is supposed to be set. Let's fix that bug, which is the real problem; quoting $HAVE_MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLER would merely suppress the warning. I installed the attached patch into gnulib; does it fix things for you?
>From 740fedbf05525a860161f21ce92ea140fb576031 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:19:53 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] msvc-inval: fix problem with unset shell var Problem reported by Karl Berry in: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00004.html * modules/msvc-inval (Depends-on): AC_REQUIRE gl_MSVC_INVAL instead of merely calling it. * modules/msvc-nothrow (Depends-on): Likewise for gl_MSVC_NOTHROW. --- ChangeLog | 9 +++++++++ modules/msvc-inval | 2 +- modules/msvc-nothrow | 2 +- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index c41b27d..2c60bc9 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +2016-01-02 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> + + msvc-inval: fix problem with unset shell var + Problem reported by Karl Berry in: + http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2016-01/msg00004.html + * modules/msvc-inval (Depends-on): + AC_REQUIRE gl_MSVC_INVAL instead of merely calling it. + * modules/msvc-nothrow (Depends-on): Likewise for gl_MSVC_NOTHROW. + 2016-01-01 Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> tests: for compare_(), use cmp -s where available diff --git a/modules/msvc-inval b/modules/msvc-inval index 7eb030a..ea1a7af 100644 --- a/modules/msvc-inval +++ b/modules/msvc-inval @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ m4/msvc-inval.m4 Depends-on: configure.ac: -gl_MSVC_INVAL +AC_REQUIRE([gl_MSVC_INVAL]) if test $HAVE_MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLER = 1; then AC_LIBOBJ([msvc-inval]) fi diff --git a/modules/msvc-nothrow b/modules/msvc-nothrow index 076bb86..2e670f9 100644 --- a/modules/msvc-nothrow +++ b/modules/msvc-nothrow @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Depends-on: msvc-inval configure.ac: -gl_MSVC_NOTHROW +AC_REQUIRE([gl_MSVC_NOTHROW]) if test $HAVE_MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLER = 1; then AC_LIBOBJ([msvc-nothrow]) fi -- 2.5.0
