Re: [coldsync-hackers] Error building on SuSE 8.1

[Andrew Arensburger <arensb+CShackers at ooblick dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:10:00AM +0100, Peer Oliver Schmidt wrote:
> I have a problem building from CVS under SuSE 8.1 with autoconf 2.53
> 
> After CVS download of coldsync and palm-perl, I change into coldsync 
> directory, execute autoconf, and receive the following error:
> 
> test:~/coldsync # autoconf
> /usr/bin/m4: configure.in: 700: Non-numeric argument to built-in `divert'

	This appears to be something that has changed between autoconf
2.13 and 2.53. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this: autoconf 2.53
doesn't give me any warnings, though as far as I can tell, it should.
	The relevant part of "configure.in" is:

	## Developer-only options
	AC_DIVERT_PUSH(AC_DIVERSION_NOTICE)dnl
	ac_help="$ac_help
	[Options for developers:]"
	AC_DIVERT_POP()dnl

If I remember correctly, the point of this passage is to add the
"Options for developers" line to the output of 'configure --help'. If
anyone knows the proper way to do this with autoconf 2.53, that'd be
helpful.

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