Re: strange warnings from aclocal...

[Ed Hartnett]

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Ed,
>
> * Ed Hartnett wrote on Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 04:34:27PM CEST:
>> 
>> I am getting warnings from aclocal about a bunch of macros being
>> underquoted. But these are not my macros! They seem to be part of
>> aclocal.
>
>> /usr/share/aclocal/g-wrap.m4:7: warning: underquoted definition of 
>> AC_GWRAP_CHECK_GUILE
>>   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
>>   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
>
> They are part of third-party packages that provide macros; I would
> guess, they are part of guile, and some banking software like gnucash.
> If you have package management on your system, it can help to find out
> which package they belong to (e.g.: `rpm -qf $file', or `dpkg -L $file').
>
>> Is there a way to get rid of this so that I can see any "real"
>> warnings? (That is, warnings related to the mistakes I'm making in my
>> configuration files.)
>
> Yes.  Each occurrence of
>   AC_DEFUN(MACRO_NAME,
>   [some
>   code])
>
> should be replaced by
>   AC_DEFUN([MACRO_NAME],
>   [some
>   code])
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf
>

Thanks Ralf, that did the trick!

But I'm wondring why aclocal is looking through a bunch of m4 files
that have nothing to do with my package...

Ed

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Ed Hartnett  -- address@hidden