Re: New failures with autoconf master

[Ross Burton]

On 18/03/2020 14:36, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Could you please file issues in the Savannah bug tracker
> (https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?func=additem&group=autoconf) for
> this and any other problems you find? This will ensure that I don't
> forget about them.

Filed https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110210 and 
https://savannah.gnu.org/support/index.php?110211.

> I think the line number in the syntax error must be wrong; there's no
> "do :" anywhere in the snippet you quoted.  I'll poke at this some
> later today, but can you tell me where to download a tarball of the
> exact same version of Nasm that you are testing?  I want to be sure
> I'm looking at the same thing.

Agreed.

We're using the tarball of nasm 2.14.02. We do have some patches, but 
nothing relevant.

> Hm, I don't immediately see how we get from misbehavior in autoheader
> with 'dnl' inside an AC_CHECK_THINGS([...]) list, to syntax errors in
> configure.  Again, I'd like to poke at this some myself, can you tell
> me where to get the exact version of flex that you are testing?

Agreed again.  Definitely confusion somewhere...

Flex 2.6.4 tarball, again a few patches but nothing huge.

To see *exactly* what we're building, this is in OpenEmbedded:

http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/flex
http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/recipes-devtools/nasm

I'm not battling binutils which demands a specific autoconf release, so 
I'll need to package up both 2.69 and git master for that.

Ross