ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.1

Ian Lynagh igloo at earth.li
Sun Nov 11 07:12:27 EST 2007


On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 11:59:43AM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:45 +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > Hi Philip,
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 09:58:40AM +0100, Philip K.F. Hölzenspies wrote:
> > > 
> > > Booting libraries/base
> > > Booting libraries/directory
> > > /usr/share/aclocal/progsreiserfs.m4:13: warning: underquoted definition of AC_CHECK_LIBREISERFS
> > >   run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
> > >   or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending-aclocal
> > 
> > I still don't understand why this would happen.
> 
> That's not a problem in GHC's configure.ac or other .ac files. It's just
> that autoreconf scans all the /usr/share/aclocal/*.m4 files that you
> happen to have installed on your system. If any of those are from before
> autoconf started getting really picky about quoting then you'll get that
> warning. It's nothing to worry about, especially as in this case it's in
> a .m4 file that we do not get any definitions from.

So why doesn't booting base cause it?


Thanks
Ian



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