Bug 1658 - configure.ac AC_TRY_COMPILE() causes failure with autoconf-2.64
Summary: configure.ac AC_TRY_COMPILE() causes failure with autoconf-2.64
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Portable OpenSSH
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Build system (show other bugs)
Version: 5.2p1
Hardware: Other Linux
: P2 normal
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Reported: 2009-10-03 17:34 AEST by Mike Frysinger
Modified: 2010-04-16 15:50 AEST (History)
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Description Mike Frysinger 2009-10-03 17:34:20 AEST 
a change in autoconf processing results in shell errors if the fourth arg is empty.  simple workaround is to do:
-   [ sp_expire_available=yes ], []
+   [ sp_expire_available=yes ], [:]

ive talked to upstream autoconf about getting this fixed, but it'll be a while before that happens, and the workaround in openssh is trivial.
Comment 1 Darren Tucker 2009-10-23 10:42:02 AEDT 
Thanks, but we only support the version of autoconf that is used for our releases (2.61 for the most part, we used 2.62 for the 5.3p1 release but that's known to cause problems on some platforms so we're going back to 2.61).

Our configure is hairy enough already that we're not going to add hackage to work around autoconf bugs.
Comment 2 Damien Miller 2010-04-16 15:50:12 AEST 
Mass move of bugs RESOLVED->CLOSED following the release of openssh-5.5p1