autoconf 2.61 on debian etch and GCC

10 msg	flag_complex_method = 2 in C++?
2 msg	Help on emitting static constant arrays
2 msg	GCC 4.2.1 RC1
25 msg	About the is_gimple_min_invariant predicate
8 msg	Decimal float and the Cygwin build of GFortran.
1 msg	GCC 4.2.1 Status Report (2007-07-03)
1 msg	How should gcc handle '-shared -pie' and '-pie ...
3 msg	Question regarding getting .rodata into the .da...
2 msg	[patch] conditionally declare bswap functions d...
7 msg	bootstrap broken on powerpc?

autoconf 2.61 on debian etch and GCC
\ Laurent GUERBY (3 Jul 2007)
. \ Martin Michlmayr (3 Jul 2007)
. \ Ralf Wildenhues (3 Jul 2007)
. . \ Andreas Schwab (3 Jul 2007)
. . . \ Ralf Wildenhues (3 Jul 2007)

2 msg	4.3 x86_64 Bootstrap breaks
2 msg	MPFR 2.3.0 Release Candidate
1 msg	FYI: today's regressions in libstdc++
1 msg	gcc-4.1-20070702 is now available
2 msg	Fwd: sub-optimal code for packed boolean arrays...
7 msg	[GSoC: DDG export][RFC] Current status
8 msg	Wow!
89 msg	no_new_pseudos
1 msg	Is it still true that message-lenght == 72 for ...

Subject:	autoconf 2.61 on debian etch and GCC
Group:	Gcc
From:	Laurent GUERBY
Date:	3 Jul 2007

The new compile farm servers are running debian etch (4.0) which
comes with autoconf 2.61 and no package for 2.59

According to Rask Ingemann Lambertsen autoconf 2.61
doesn't work correctly for GCC (see below).

What do GCC developpers do on debian etch?

Thanks in advance,

Laurent

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 11:27 +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 08:11:31PM +0200, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> >
> > If 2.61 really causes us trouble I'll try to do a manual install of 2.59
> > from whatever .tar.gz I can find.
>
> It does, as the config.status it produces is broken. Look at this line:
>
> s,@TOPLEVEL_CONFIGURE_ARGUMENTS@,|#_!!_#|/home/rask/src/gcc/configure linux gnu,g
>