multiarch: avoid autoconf AC_REQUIRE bug

* m4/multiarch.m4 (gl_MULTIARCH): Split body...
(gl_MULTIARCH_BODY): ...into new macro, to work around bug in Autoconf
2.63 and older.
Reported by Bruno Haible, and analyzed in
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-12/msg00039.html

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 0b68f9b92baa01a60338934ac9745c44265ec1d8..516ff9e98b6c99b757500ce2ccfe1cdf7c746b52 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+2008-12-29  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       multiarch: avoid autoconf AC_REQUIRE bug
+       * m4/multiarch.m4 (gl_MULTIARCH): Split body...
+       (gl_MULTIARCH_BODY): ...into new macro, to work around bug in Autoconf
+       2.63 and older.
+       Reported by Bruno Haible, and analyzed in
+       http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2008-12/msg00039.html
+
 2008-12-29  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * gnulib-tool (func_import): When generating sed-ignore-removed, handle

diff --git a/m4/multiarch.m4 b/m4/multiarch.m4
index d857599d6b03353d0f7fb5631ceb3bcd32353184..7b73e15ee9dcf6f9d70c38c79f9af7e83666c962 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/multiarch.m4
+++ b/m4/multiarch.m4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# multiarch.m4 serial 2
+# multiarch.m4 serial 3
 dnl Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
 dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ dnl with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
 # beginning of config.h and set APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD accordingly.
 
 AC_DEFUN([gl_MULTIARCH],
+[
+  dnl This AC_REQUIRE is not necessary in theory. It works around a bug in
+  dnl autoconf <= 2.63: AC_REQUIRE invocations inside AC_REQUIREd macros are
+  dnl being handled better than AC_REQUIRE invocations inside normally invoked
+  dnl macros.
+  AC_REQUIRE([gl_MULTIARCH_BODY])
+])
+
+AC_DEFUN([gl_MULTIARCH_BODY],
 [
   dnl Code similar to autoconf-2.63 AC_C_BIGENDIAN.
   gl_cv_c_multiarch=no