Subject: bug#50924: automake-1.16: error: unrequested trace '$n'

From: Hans-Bernhard Bröker <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 23:03:32 +0200

Am 04.10.2021 um 02:40 schrieb Karl Berry:
>      automake-1.16: error: unrequested trace '$n'
> 
> Thanks for the report, but it does not happen for me on CentOS 7, using
> automake-1.16.4. 

Neither does it for me, actually using Cygwin (current, on Win10 
current).  And FWIW, the automake version that resolves to is 1.16.1, 
and autoconf is 2.69.

I didn't apply any fancy extra options to the git clone as in the 
original report, though; just plain git pull <address> into a fresh 
subdir under my cygwin-controlled /home/... (to make sure permissions 
and stuff were sane).

> After downloading from https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng,
> for me running ./bootstrap ends like this:
> 
> INFO  :: *** Running autoreconf
> configure.ac:96: warning: AC_PROG_LEX without either yywrap or noyywrap is obsolete
> ./lib/autoconf/programs.m4:716: _AC_PROG_LEX is expanded from...
> ./lib/autoconf/programs.m4:709: AC_PROG_LEX is expanded from...
> configure.ac:96: the top level
> configure.ac:293: warning: The macro `AC_HEADER_STDC' is obsolete.
> configure.ac:293: You should run autoupdate.
> ./lib/autoconf/headers.m4:704: AC_HEADER_STDC is expanded from...
> configure.ac:293: the top level
> INFO  :: *** Done!

I had no warnings at all.  ./bootstrap && ./configure && make just worked:

$ ./ct-ng version
This is crosstool-NG version 1.24.0.479_aa52493

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