aclocal: error: cannot open echo 'm4_define([m4_require_silent_probe], [-])' |

[Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz]

On Sunday 06 of December 2015, Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> Has anyone see such error? Trying to figure out what causes it. It happens
> with various packages, some work, some do not.

Reproducer

#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN {
        push ( @INC,"/usr/share/automake");
}

use strict;

use Automake::XFile;

my $configure_ac;
my $traces = "echo 'zupa'";
my $tracefh = new Automake::XFile ("$traces");


$ LC_ALL=C perl a1.pl
a1.pl: error: cannot open echo 'zupa': No such file or directory

so no idea how it is supposed to work in aclocal which does:

  my $early_m4_code .= "m4_define([m4_require_silent_probe], [-])";

  my $traces = ($ENV{AUTOM4TE} || 'autom4te');
  $traces .= " --language Autoconf-without-aclocal-m4 ";
  $traces = "echo '$early_m4_code' | $traces - ";
  ...
  verb "running $traces $configure_ac";

  my $tracefh = new Automake::XFile ("$traces $configure_ac |");


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