Re: configure badly generated after autoconf update

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

On 05/20/2006 11:02:43 AM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> Le 20.05.2006 09:50:26, Pawel Salek a écrit :
> > On 05/14/2006 03:21:51 PM, Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've updated my sid version f Debian and autoconf has been updated.
> > >
> > > With this version of autoconf, configure has a syntax error:
> >
> > On 05/14/2006 05:04:58 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > That "-" comes from configure.in:
> > >
> > > else
> > >     AC_MSG_CHECKING(whether to use GtkHTML)
> > >     -AC_MSG_RESULT(disabled)
> > > fi
> >
> > I have just removed the dash in CVS.
>
> And it is fine this way.
> What I cannot understand is why a previous version of autoconf works.

I am convinced AC_MSG_RESULT() macro definition has changed. It used to  
work due to a lucky coincidence. m4 macros are just that, the generator  
does not do much syntax checking.

Pawel