Dear Bruno, Lördag den 18:e january 2020, klockan 19:11, skrev Bruno Haible detta: > > The cause of the failure is that inetutils/configure.ac invokes > AC_ISC_POSIX before AC_PROG_CC. But AC_ISC_POSIX is documented to expand > into an invocation of AC_SEARCH_LIBS; therefore it requires to run the C > compiler. It therefore does not really make sense to invoke AC_ISC_POSIX > before AC_PROG_CC. You were just lucky that it worked before.
The new patch in itself makes the bootrapping successful without further changes to configure.ac of Inetutils. That being said, I inserted the macro AC_PROG_EGREP as recently as January 11th. And immediately it discloses my ignorance of many details, sigh! In contrast, our AC_ISC_POSIX sits fixed since 2005, but does not interfere visibly (beyond the error log copied last time) with the advent of your most recent change. Nonetheless, I will move it to a position where other libraries are probed. Thank you for your most illuminating comments! Regards, Mats E A
