autoconf AC_CONFIG_FILES Macro Issues

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Wed Nov 16 09:22:00 GMT 2005


Larry Adams (The Cacti Group) wrote:

> I have an issue with both the autoconf AC_CONFIG_FILES and AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS 
> MACROS in the current 2.59 version of autoconf.  When compiling 
> the ./configure shell script, the use of these macros prepents each command 
> with several white spaces causing the use of continuation characters within 
> the resulting ac_config_files and ac_config_commands to fail during subsequent 
> execution of the configure script.
> 
> In the case of the AC_CONFIG_FILES MACRO, there are over 300 space characters 
> prepended on the output line prior to the command being issued.
> 
> My question is, how do I get this logged as a bug?

This is not a cygwin-specific behavior.  You should report this as a big 
to the   bug dash autoconf at gnu dot org   mailing list.

--
Chuck


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