Patrick Hartling writes: > autoupdate is interesting, but I don't necessarily want to require the > use of versions >=2.50 just yet.
Well, you can't have it both ways. > Even so, running autoupdate and adding []'s liberally does not fix the > syntax errors in the generated 'configure'. I've attached the > resulting configure.in. Quoting the arguments correctly and inserting the missing second argument of AC_CHECK_LIB makes it work for me: AC_INIT AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([.]) AC_PROG_CC AC_CHECK_LIB([m], [main], [AC_CHECK_HEADER([math.h], [echo "Hello"], [AC_MSG_ERROR([*** Header not found (oops) ***])])]) -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED]