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Charles, Do you know why Debian etch accepts the quadrigraph '@<:@' but not two consecutive ones? Even with a space in between it doesn't work, although a single instance is processed correctly. Best regards, Arjen -- Please keep list traffic on the list

Hi, I've just found this issue - brackets are eaten by Autoconf. Quadrigraphs [1] may be used instead. This way configure produces correct error. Filipp [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.66/html_node/Quadrigraphs.html diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac index 7379ab35..dcf52230 100644 --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2616,7 +2616,...

https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538 Summary: improve SSP detection Product: Portable OpenSSH Version: 5.1p1 Platform: All OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Build system AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at mindrot.org ReportedBy: vapier at

...ides a broken version of the AM_PATH_CHECK macro, which causes autoconf to fail due to insufficient quoting on the macro names it prints in its deprecation message. We have written a patch to fix this problem, available at: <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/check-m4-am-path-check-use-quadrigraphs-in-macro-names-to-unbreak-autoconf.patch?bug=395466;msg=20;att=1> Version 0.9.4-2 of the Debian package for check includes this patch. Users of other distributions who want to re-autotool libxcb will need to apply this patch, use an older version of check, or wait for a fixed upstream version....