build of rpm fails

[Udo van den Heuvel]

Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
> phobos at rootme.org wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 02:51:54PM +0100, udovdh at xs4all.nl wrote 1.1K bytes in 30 lines about:
>> : No chance. This is a VIA C3 Nehemia CPU from a VIA EK8000 board.
>> : Maybe my .rpmrc matters?
>> : 
>> : optflags: i386 %{__global_cflags} -m32 -march=c3-2 -pipe
>> : -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -finline-functions -mfpmath=sse,387
>>
>> 	Ahh.  The tor.spec overrides local optflags.  Comment out line
>> 	33 in the tor.spec, which is:
>> 	"%define optflags -march=%{target_cpu} -mtune=%{target_cpu} -O2"
>>
>> 	Let me know if this works.
> 
> Nope. Same error:
> 
> config.status: creating contrib/suse/tor.sh
> config.status: creating orconfig.h
> config.status: executing default-1 commands
> + /usr/bin/make
> cd . && aclocal-1.4
> cd . && automake-1.4 --foreign --include-deps Makefile
> cd . && autoconf
> configure.in:8: /usr/bin/m4: Warning: sub-expression 1 not present
> autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status: 1
> make: *** [configure] Error 1
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.25269 (%build)
> 
> 
> RPM build errors:
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.25269 (%build)
> 
> Strange thing is that the configure.in line 8 thing is vague.
> Line 8 says:
> 
> AM_CONFIG_HEADER(orconfig.h)
> 
> orconfig.h is present.
> So what now? I am slightly puzzled.

Looks loke an m4 bug:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-m4@gnu.org/msg01831.html