Ok. Strange interactions with autoscan and autom4te.cache. And a possible bug in autoscan otherwise.
Starting in a clean directory: nexus@thune[10:06pm]~/foo(203) ls nexus@thune[10:06pm]~/foo(204) echo "int sys_siglist;" > a.c nexus@thune[10:06pm]~/foo(205) echo "int st_blksize;" >> a.c nexus@thune[10:06pm]~/foo(206) touch configure.ac nexus@thune[10:06pm]~/foo(207) autoscan configure.ac: warning: missing AC_CHECK_DECLS([sys_siglist]) wanted by: a.c:1 configure.ac: warning: missing AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_blksize]) wanted by: a.c:2 configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PREREQ wanted by: autoscan configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PROG_CC wanted by: a.c 4.820u 0.380s 0:05.22 99.6% 0+0k 0+0io 1909pf+0w nexus@thune[10:06pm]~/foo(208) mv -f configure.scan configure.ac nexus@thune[10:07pm]~/foo(209) autoscan configure.ac: warning: missing AC_CHECK_DECLS([sys_siglist]) wanted by: a.c:1 configure.ac: warning: missing AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct stat.st_blksize]) wanted by: a.c:2 configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PREREQ wanted by: autoscan configure.ac: warning: missing AC_PROG_CC wanted by: a.c 4.810u 0.350s 0:05.19 99.4% 0+0k 0+0io 1797pf+0w nexus@thune[10:07pm]~/foo(210) rm -rf autom4te.cache/ nexus@thune[10:07pm]~/foo(211) autoscan configure.ac: warning: missing AC_CHECK_DECLS([sys_siglist]) wanted by: a.c:1 9.630u 0.420s 0:10.12 99.3% 0+0k 0+0io 1937pf+0w nexus@thune[10:07pm]~/foo(213) grep siglist configure.ac AC_CHECK_DECLS([sys_siglist]) nexus@thune[10:07pm]~/foo(215) autoscan -V autoscan (GNU Autoconf) 2.57 Written by David J. MacKenzie and Akim Demaille. So, why different results after nuking autom4te.cache? Also, why is it bitching about sys_siglist? Thanks, mrc -- Mike Castle [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.netcom.com/~dalgoda/ We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen fatal ("You are in a maze of twisty compiler features, all different"); -- gcc