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RenegadeAndy
RenegadeAndy

Reputation: 5690

Compiling autoconf results in an incorrect version reporting

I want to update from autoconf 2.62 to 2.69.

I downloaded the source and ran the following:

./configure
make
make install

These all complete successfully.

When I run autoconf --version I get the following:

autoconf --version
autoconf (GNU Autoconf) ?K??
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+/Autoconf: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>, <http://gnu.org/licenses/exceptions.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille.

The problem you see here is that the version reports as ?K??.

Why could this be? My machine runs in the EBCDIC codepage and I am wondering if this could be associated. Is there a configure / make option I need to add.

This issues stops me compiling other software, as the configure scripts check the version autoconf reports and it ends up failing those checks.

-----UPDATE------- I have run make check as requested and this is the output:

autoconf269: >make check
make  check-recursive
Making check in bin
Making check in .
Making check in lib
Making check in Autom4te
Making check in m4sugar
make  check-local
Making check in autoconf
make  check-local
Making check in autotest
make  check-local
Making check in autoscan
Making check in emacs
Making check in doc
make: Makefile: line 436: Warning -- FSUM9433 Duplicate entry [fdl.texi] in prerequisite list
Making check in tests
make  check-local
cd ../lib/autotest && make  autotest.m4f
`autotest.m4f' is up to date
autom4te_perllibdir='..'/lib                     AUTOM4TE_CFG='../lib/autom4te.cfg'         ../bin/autom4te  -B '..'/lib -B '..'/lib --language=autotest -I . -I . suite.at -o ./testsuite.tmp
m4:local.at:18: bad expression in eval (bad input): ((?+1+0) > (2+0)) - ((?+1+0) < (2+0))
autom4te: /workarea/tools/m4/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
FSUM8226 make: Error code 1 
FSUM8226 make: Error code 255 
FSUM8226 make: Error code 1 
FSUM8226 make: Error code 255

My eyes are drawn to : m4:local.at:18: bad expression in eval (bad input): ((?+1+0) > (2+0)) - ((?+1+0) < (2+0)) -- any ideas why this may be considered a bad expression?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 513

Answers (1)

arved
arved

Reputation: 4576

One possiblity: the autoconf you compiled installed into /usr/local while the preinstalled one is in /usr. /usr is first in PATH so the preinstalled one is used.

You can also check the version before running make install to ensure, that the new verson fixes your problem.

Upvotes: 2

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