I am using autotools for building my C++ application. In my configure.ac I have the following line:
AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG([-Wall], [CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall"])
which causes the following error when executing ./configure (after running autoreconf -i):
./configure: line 3825: syntax error near unexpected token `-Wall,'
./configure: line 3825: `AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG(-Wall, CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -Wall")'
My system: Linux web 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux
On my Ubuntu machine it works well, why do I get this error?
autoreconf isn't magic (though I encounter package maintainers who obviously believe this). When you ran autoreconf, it failed to find the AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG macro, and produced a corrupt configure script. Usually that produces an error/diagnostic message at the same time.
'AX_CHECK_COMPILE_FLAG` comes from the autoconf archive project, and Debian has a package which provides this, named autoconf-archive. Likely, you forgot to install it:
sudo apt-get install autoconf-archive
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30412576/autotools-syntax-error-with-ax-check-compile-flag