From: Mike Simons <msimons@fsimons01.erols.com>
Message-Id: <199901130313.WAA15313@fsimons01.erols.com>
Subject: Autoconf AC_PATH_PROG macro problem...
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:13:53 -0500 (EST)
Content-Type: text

Package: autoconf
Installed-Size: 707
Version: 2.12-12

This configure.in script gets processed wrong:
=======
AC_INIT

AC_ARG_WITH(perl, [--with-perl=FILE  Which perl executable to use],
            PERL_PATH="${with_perl}", AC_PATH_PROG(PERL_PATH, perl))
=======

What I think the problem is:
  AC_PATH_PROG(PERL_PATH, perl) contains a case expression, one close paren
in that expression gets eaten by something...

Comes out looking like this:
>  case "$PERL_PATH" in
>  /*
>fi
>
>  ac_cv_path_PERL_PATH="$PERL_PATH" # Let the user override the test with a path.
>  ;;

Should look like this:
>  case "$PERL_PATH" in
>  /*)
>  ac_cv_path_PERL_PATH="$PERL_PATH" # Let the user override the test with a path.
>  ;;

What I think the fix is:
  Modify acgeneral.m4 around line 1341 and 1344 so that these case
statements have their ')' escaped from whatever is munching on them.

1340 [case "[$]$1" in
1341   /*)
1342   ac_cv_path_$1="[$]$1" # Let the user override the test with a path.
1343   ;;
1344   *)

  Thanks,
    Mike Simons
    msimons@fsimons01.erols.com