From unknown Sun Jun 15 08:57:02 2025 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Subject: bug#21352: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS vs. ACLOCAL_FLAGS: different behavior wrt AM_COND_IF, aclocal fails Resent-From: Christian =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6ssel?= Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-automake@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:53:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 21352 X-GNU-PR-Package: automake X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 21352@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-automake@gnu.org Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.144060436329710 (code B ref -1); Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:53:01 +0000 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 26 Aug 2015 15:52:43 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38960 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUd0F-0007j5-8T for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:52:43 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34533) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcKD-0006fj-5x for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:09:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcK7-0003v1-7w for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:09:16 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:54231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcK7-0003uu-5l for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:09:11 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44472) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcK3-0001Zl-6b for bug-automake@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:09:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcJy-0003qf-PZ for bug-automake@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:09:07 -0400 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.15.15]:64554) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZUcJy-0003qI-E8 for bug-automake@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:09:02 -0400 Received: from [134.94.171.188] ([134.94.171.188]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MXZbS-1ZGoJ82zAc-00WWSH for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:09:00 +0200 Message-ID: <55DDD68C.1090702@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:09:00 +0200 From: Christian =?UTF-8?Q?R=C3=B6ssel?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:sk1W0tmWDIM5Xnza0Pqg137OtA2NE8WCqh0kWBmemvjeDb71hoR 4gbhUMzZLozA58sUJjE79K6kzuJ998FVEWEr2PVQcLaUEuIMAmxmpCFOvdwynnE/XQOnzu1 /+LBJRwYNWx1OwZjWTsS174b9ifT9Q9Wyk3+Tr+SJehAkH3XRECYeVOmLId6TaOd7OcilnJ S5PSpTmeXvp1As+11pvNA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:AkcVTZbCJbk=:ZVHqbwGbTlWaHh/jso0fjN ROlOX/7WWEVMKLAJmQb+EQNBXCIx/xkaf9Qs71YMIsh4fiuOz0e4lpIFkX0eeskPrzDGGQSzD iRnZcsovLCYcKA9/3Ah9kSAOSuJ5w9NJTfqpaB3iyzY32RUbXv0hwHBcMoiBISS3GkX8e/BY/ 4jMgMIa4GWz3Pdk4SrdealwpXRs/vCstKi+RAXmR2v6k/MMge4wf7LZyGNL7yhUwN7pl2wLxm ocsBAV6HxmhQUFYwhSK0X5ZHXKPVoe067Qd8c1EDNlmwsjzUwvwArsnron6gxByKU2AQXzfd7 Z3VJrJtug/Gw3e1qwpTluCvaTnCZFN0CYDTpRlFJTO4tcIZYjn10as6ZYjTKKB6THBBmCo8AR ARgqiYy4Nh2lIQtb/TTCL4FfzJSgxvwgrVNpSsTT47O2D545aP+yApC4heWcWZHnjh3R8eSwq eDP4GQ7tIRO1gGdAP3JdydaENP+ksGFmiZ2nOnGcJ5M/JQXlTOa25tbjvqrQWv/5+Ifgfseiq 4SDz6RmNXevysV0HoQT77Oi8iESu3Iog8MWi1GM5TDW5neOQZO5KwLSMDKHfy0EspAcOvOXOf zrssXy95fFm6p9HuoDGC9ZEZ4ErkEgwUzXCK4nFAgbapTnsIG2FkD5hlfQ84fIxNbj8p1aInA YZQ+C5vTdE6lm/dJeXBpkytYDIeCGv4GCwS8o7qpVGYU2om9EQ7xyGccYNYGidAbppec7pMaF uwAuR+RMq6mGgPQQVyP+pFvQr8ErUwd0j15AUw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:52:41 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.1 (----) automake 1.15/1.13.4 (other versions not tested) autoconf 2.69 Dear all, 'AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4])' is supposed to replace 'ACLOCAL_FLAGS = -I m4'. Just using AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS works fine unless I have a AM_COND_IF in configure.ac that references a which is not defined in configure.ac but in a m4 file that lives in subdirectory m4. In this case aclocal (via autoreconf) fails with > error: AM_COND_IF: no such condition "" When using 'ACLOCAL_FLAGS = -I m4', autoreconf succeeds. The difference between AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS and ACLOCAL_FLAGS when running autoreconf is that the latter passes '-I m4' to aclocal, the former doesn't (but still finds the macros in the m4 subdirectory). As ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS will be fully deprecated in Automake 2.0, AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS/aclocal needs IMO to be fixed (unfortunately I can't help on that). To reproduce: $ cat > configure.ac <<'END' AC_INIT([foo], [0]) AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS([m4]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([-Wall foreign]) MY_FEATURE AM_COND_IF([HAVE_MY_FEATURE], [echo "bingo"]) AC_CONFIG_FILES(Makefile) AC_OUTPUT END $ cat > Makefile.am <<'END' #ACLOCAL_FLAGS = -I m4 END $ mkdir m4 cat > m4/my_feature.m4 <<'END' AC_DEFUN([MY_FEATURE], [ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_MY_FEATURE], [test 1 -eq 1])]) END $ autoreconf -v --install autoreconf: Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext autoreconf: running: aclocal configure.ac:5: error: AM_COND_IF: no such condition "HAVE_MY_FEATURE" /opt/packages/afs-dev/01/share/aclocal-1.13/cond-if.m4:23: AM_COND_IF is expanded from... configure.ac:5: the top level autom4te: /opt/packages/afs-dev/01/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1 aclocal: error: echo failed with exit status: 1 autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1 Best regards, Christian --