Re: autoconf-2.66 broken - how to combat?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:02:27PM -0400, Dewey Hylton wrote:
> it appears as if autoconf-2.66 is broken, and a preliminary patch is 
> available for types.m4

Can you please apply the attached patch to autoconf (you might need to
create a devel/autoconf/patches directory first), reinstall (2.66nb1)
and let us know if this fixes your problem?

Thanks,
 Thomas

Index: Makefile
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/Makefile,v
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -u -r1.74 Makefile
--- Makefile    21 Jul 2010 11:18:26 -0000      1.74
+++ Makefile    22 Jul 2010 09:05:37 -0000
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.74 2010/07/21 11:18:26 wiz Exp $
 
 DISTNAME=              autoconf-2.66
+PKGREVISION=           1
 CATEGORIES=            devel
 MASTER_SITES=          ${MASTER_SITE_GNU:=autoconf/}
 
Index: distinfo
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RCS file: /cvsroot/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/distinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -r1.22 distinfo
--- distinfo    21 Jul 2010 11:18:26 -0000      1.22
+++ distinfo    22 Jul 2010 09:05:37 -0000
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 SHA1 (autoconf-2.66.tar.gz) = b58569c49f26ab1e0846078fe915bdaffad5a463
 RMD160 (autoconf-2.66.tar.gz) = a32d25a9adfc687a2085f2f161fdcc9ab64c4f56
 Size (autoconf-2.66.tar.gz) = 1829980 bytes
+SHA1 (patch-aa) = 76c942df53cbb73763cbb3ea8ca438bfb592aae3
Index: patches/patch-aa
===================================================================
RCS file: patches/patch-aa
diff -N patches/patch-aa
--- /dev/null   1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
+++ patches/patch-aa    22 Jul 2010 09:05:37 -0000
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+$NetBSD$
+
+upstream index ee07148..9f482da 100644
+
+--- lib/autoconf/types.m4.orig 2010-07-02 18:22:08.000000000 +0000
++++ lib/autoconf/types.m4
+@@ -763,7 +763,7 @@ Remove this warning and the `AC_CACHE_CH
+ # AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(TYPE, [IGNORED], [INCLUDES = DEFAULT-INCLUDES])
+ # ---------------------------------------------------------------
+ AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_SIZEOF],
+-[AS_LITERAL_IF([$1], [],
++[AS_LITERAL_IF(m4_translit([[$1]], [*], [p]), [],
+              [m4_fatal([$0: requires literal arguments])])]dnl
+ [# The cast to long int works around a bug in the HP C Compiler
+ # version HP92453-01 B.11.11.23709.GP, which incorrectly rejects