MySQL Bugs: #5542: Multiple "underquoted definition" warnings.

Bug #5542	Multiple "underquoted definition" warnings.
Submitted:	13 Sep 2004 12:10	Modified:	21 Oct 2006 9:21
Reporter:	Timour Katchaounov	Email Updates:
Status:	No Feedback	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MySQL Server: Compiling	Severity:	S3 (Non-critical)
Version:	5.0	OS:	Linux (SuSe Linux 9.1)
Assigned to:		CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
When building a fresh clone of MySQL 5.0 (from Mon, Sept. 17th) on the following system:
  SuSe 9.1 Pro with autoconf 2.59, automake 1.8.3, libtool 1.5.2
there are multiple "underquoted definition" warnings issued by the build tools.
Below I pasted the first lines after the build begins:

+++ aclocal
configure.in:277: warning: underquoted definition of AC_SYS_COMPILER_FLAG
  run info '(automake)Extending aclocal'
  or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal
configure.in:300: warning: underquoted definition of AC_SYS_CPU_COMPILER_FLAG
configure.in:308: warning: underquoted definition of AC_SYS_OS_COMPILER_FLAG
acinclude.m4:4: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_CHECK_READLINE_DECLARES_HIST_ENTRY
acinclude.m4:24: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_CHECK_LIBEDIT_INTERFACE
acinclude.m4:45: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_CHECK_NEW_RL_INTERFACE
acinclude.m4:68: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_CHECK_SIZEOF
acinclude.m4:97: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_TYPE_ACCEPT
acinclude.m4:138: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_TYPE_QSORT
acinclude.m4:156: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_TIMESPEC_TS
acinclude.m4:175: warning: underquoted definition of MYSQL_TZNAME
.....................

How to repeat:
- Get a fresh clone of MySQL 5.0
- run ./BUILD/compile-pentium-debug

The issue was fixed in 4.1 and should be propogated into 5.0 with the next merge:
ChangeSet
  1.2007 04/09/15 02:15:11 konstantin@mysql.com +2 -0
  Fix warnings reported by aclocal > 1.8 (Underquoted definition of ...)

Please reopen this bug if you still encounter this problem after 5.0 is merged with 4.1 next time.

I have started to see this under Cygwin on Windows XP Pro, using the latest BitKeeper source for 5.0.25BK as of today.  I have been using the standard compiling instructions for Windows.

Please, specify versions of autoconf, automake and libtool in your cygwin. Current -BK version is 5.0.26-BK, by the way. Also, please, note, that cygwin platfrom, formally, is not supported.

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".