Hello list, I more or less often recompile sources for certain GNU projects, and at least three projects fail to bootstrap with the same message (only line numbers vary). They all pull subrepos from gnulib. The problem seems to be that the autotools generate invald configure scripts.
texinfo: line 5904ff of configure: for ac_arg in '' ac_prog_cc_stdc=c89 ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89 do CC="$ac_save_CC $ac_arg" if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO" then : ac_cv_prog_cc_c89=$ac_arg fi rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.beam test "x$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89" != "xno" && break done octave: ../configure: line 7723: syntax error near unexpected token `ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' ../configure: line 7723: ` ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' bison: ./configure: line 6277: syntax error near unexpected token `ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' ./configure: line 6277: ` ac_cv_prog_cc_stdc=$ac_cv_prog_cc_c89' In both cases the corresponding configure scripts include the above invalid code. Best Regards Stefan Husmann