* acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use

   `... echo "error: \`$f'" ...`
as it's not portable to BSDI 1.3.
Do this instead:
   `... echo "error: $f" ...`
Reported by Daniele Arena.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6be75c1cb72b49e159d4a5fa9e62df327c5d91f4..6cef0b78679d746e87ed2ba05b6239d65e0f90ee 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2000-11-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
+
+       * acgeneral.m4 (_AC_OUTPUT_HEADERS, _AC_OUTPUT_FILES): Don't use
+          `... echo "error: \\\`$f'" ...`
+       as it's not portable to BSDI 1.3.
+       Do this instead:
+          `... echo "error: $f" ...`
+       Reported by Daniele Arena.
+
 2000-11-29  Akim Demaille  <akim@epita.fr>
 
        QNX 4.2.5's expr always exits 1 when `:' is used with parens.

diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 6696d3c25abb7de4f49e16c3c3f5bc27de7f9144..ab8ee6631a95dc9199d23d0a1a6c44fc323db178 100644 (file)
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ Christian Krackowizer ckrackowiz@std.schuler-ag.com
 Christian Krone                krischan@sql.de
 Chris Torek            torek@bsdi.com
 Cort Dougan            cort@cs.nmt.edu
+Daniele Arena          daniele@ripe.net
 Dave Adams             adams@hpesdwa.fc.hp.com
 Dave Love              fx@gnu.org
 David Morgan           dmorgan@symark.com

diff --git a/acgeneral.m4 b/acgeneral.m4
index 08806f288404bfb50700b6becad98a58dad3b38e..f3c5c460dc40348db79ceee634f038edf9c6240c 100644 (file)
--- a/acgeneral.m4
+++ b/acgeneral.m4
@@ -4179,7 +4179,7 @@ AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_PROG_INSTALL],
       -) echo $tmp/stdin ;;
       [[\\/$]]* | ?:[[\\/]]*)
          # Absolute
-         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          echo $f;;
       *) # Relative
          if test -f "$f"; then
@@ -4190,7 +4190,7 @@ AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_PROG_INSTALL],
            echo $ac_given_srcdir/$f
          else
            # /dev/null tree
-           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          fi;;
       esac
     done` || AS_EXIT([1])
@@ -4326,7 +4326,7 @@ for ac_file in : $CONFIG_HEADERS; do test "x$ac_file" = x: && continue
       -) echo $tmp/stdin ;;
       [[\\/$]]* | ?:[[\\/]]*)
          # Absolute
-         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          echo $f;;
       *) # Relative
          if test -f "$f"; then
@@ -4337,7 +4337,7 @@ for ac_file in : $CONFIG_HEADERS; do test "x$ac_file" = x: && continue
            echo $ac_given_srcdir/$f
          else
            # /dev/null tree
-           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          fi;;
       esac
     done` || AS_EXIT([1])

diff --git a/lib/autoconf/general.m4 b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
index 08806f288404bfb50700b6becad98a58dad3b38e..f3c5c460dc40348db79ceee634f038edf9c6240c 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/autoconf/general.m4
+++ b/lib/autoconf/general.m4
@@ -4179,7 +4179,7 @@ AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_PROG_INSTALL],
       -) echo $tmp/stdin ;;
       [[\\/$]]* | ?:[[\\/]]*)
          # Absolute
-         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          echo $f;;
       *) # Relative
          if test -f "$f"; then
@@ -4190,7 +4190,7 @@ AC_PROVIDE_IFELSE([AC_PROG_INSTALL],
            echo $ac_given_srcdir/$f
          else
            # /dev/null tree
-           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          fi;;
       esac
     done` || AS_EXIT([1])
@@ -4326,7 +4326,7 @@ for ac_file in : $CONFIG_HEADERS; do test "x$ac_file" = x: && continue
       -) echo $tmp/stdin ;;
       [[\\/$]]* | ?:[[\\/]]*)
          # Absolute
-         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+         test -f "$f" || AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          echo $f;;
       *) # Relative
          if test -f "$f"; then
@@ -4337,7 +4337,7 @@ for ac_file in : $CONFIG_HEADERS; do test "x$ac_file" = x: && continue
            echo $ac_given_srcdir/$f
          else
            # /dev/null tree
-           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file \\`$f'])
+           AC_MSG_ERROR([cannot find input file: $f])
          fi;;
       esac
     done` || AS_EXIT([1])

diff --git a/tests/torture.at b/tests/torture.at
index e066ba2533018446cefd627188dee5b59fed655d..8b1f4a27178d166eb96b2c61e156cdf7c5658db2 100644 (file)
--- a/tests/torture.at
+++ b/tests/torture.at
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ AC_OUTPUT
 
 AT_CHECK_AUTOCONF
 AT_CHECK([./configure], 1, ignore,
-[[config.status: error: cannot find input file `nonexistent.in'
+[[config.status: error: cannot find input file: nonexistent.in
 ]])
 # Make sure that the output file doesn't exist
 AT_CHECK([test -f nonexistent], 1)