On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> [adding gnulib]
>
> On 07/30/2014 07:14 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I recently tried to install m4 1.4.17 on FreeBSD 7 (which doesn't
>> have posix_spawn) and I ran into build errors with execute.c; it was
>> looking for posix_spawn-related constants and the API, which didn't
>> exist.
>> I'm not sure what the best course of action would be for this --
>> either remove the autoconf-related feature checking or add the
>> necessary #defines to support OSes without posix_spawn.
>
> M4 uses the gnulib module for posix_spawn, which _should_ work on
> systems that lack it natively. The autoconf checking for posix_spawn
> should be learning that there is no native posix_spawn and supply a
> working alternative based on fork() that just works. Can you please
> show the (section of) config.log related to posix_spawn probes, to see
> if there's something that went obviously wrong? Also, it might be nice
> to debug this gnulib issue in isolation; are you able to help debug
> things if I help you test a tarball created from gnulib.git?
Sure! I'll install vanilla FreeBSD 7.4, because I'm using a
heavily modified copy of FreeBSD 7.x when I sent my previous email.
Thanks :)!
-Garrett
