Re: [Plib-devel] Updated configure script in CVS

[Julian F. <jul...@bt...>]

Sebastian Ude wrote:
> 
> Therefore, I checked a new configure.in into CVS that allows one to build
> only certain PLIB subsystems by specifying certain --enable- / --disable-
> options
> ...
> Although the new configure script works fine for me, there is always a
> chance I messed something up. Please test it and if you run into trouble
> and/or think you've found a bug in the script, BY ALL MEANS report it !

The "AC_MSG_NOTICE(...)" at the end of configure.in is not valid with 
autoconf 2.13:

   $ ./autogen.sh
   Running aclocal
   Running automake
   Running autoconf
   autoconf: Undefined macros:
   configure.in:399:AC_MSG_NOTICE(
   ======================================
   Now you are ready to run './configure'
   ======================================

This leads on to an error when running "configure": here are the last 
few lines of its output:

   ...
   creating src/ssgAux/Makefile
   creating src/fnt/Makefile
   creating src/net/Makefile
   ./configure: 3813: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")")

The syntax error is in the "echo" command to print the message.  This 
would have been the last command in "configure" anyway, so you can 
actually ignore the errors and carry on, but that does not make it OK, 
I'm sure you will agree.

Perhaps you can use plain "echo" (or possibly an older message-printing 
macro like AC_MSG_RESULT) instead.  Patch attached.  Tested on CygWin 
with autoconf versions 2.13 and 2.53.

- Julian