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From: James Flemer <jflemer@acm.jhu.edu>
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Subject: ports/35879: autoconf-2.52_2 creates empty case/esac statements
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>Number:         35879
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       autoconf-2.52_2 creates empty case/esac statements
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 13 18:10:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     James Flemer
>Release:        4.5-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD phi.speednaked.com 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Wed Feb 27 14:36:20 EST 2002     jflemer@psi.speednaked.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PHI  i386
>Description:
The autoconf port should be patched for this bug, or upgraded to 2.53.
There was a patch[1] posted to the GNU autoconf mailing list.
This is not a very critical bug, and I assume that the port will move to
2.53 soon anyway, but in the mean time, the patch should fix the problem.

[1] http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7758332&list=402
>How-To-Repeat:
$ cat > configure.ac
AC_INIT(test, 0)
AC_PREREQ(2.52)
AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS(default, , [echo hi there])
AC_OUTPUT
$ autoconf
$ ./configure
configure: creating ./config.status
hi there
./config.status: 233: Syntax error: "done" unexpected (expecting ")")

>Fix:
Patch available at:

http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7758332&list=402
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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