[Autoconf] Failed tests on Solaris-2.5/Sparc

Hi all, I'm in the process of installing all teh auto-tools on my machines and while installing on Sparc/Solaris-2.5 I get two failed tests: One is the autoupdate test that failed on ix86/Solaris-7 due to deficiencies in Sun's sed; I'll install gnu sed here also :-) The

Re: [Autoconf] Macro to test for pthreads?

Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > Does anyone have a tried and proven macro they can point me to that > updates LIBS, CPPFLAGS, and CFLAGS values to support POSIX threads > across platforms? The macro in the Autoconf macro repository > (ACX_PTHREAD) is not proving useful due to not working on common >

Re: [Autoconf] Autoupdate is broken.

| Hello! Hi Pavel, thanks for the bug report, and the fix (which is perfectly right). | This patch works for me, i.e. autoupdate works and the testsuite still | passes. And even configure still works with old macros. | | | --- acgeneral.m4 Thu Sep 14 23:22:57 20

[Autoconf] Autoupdate and expr [Was: Autoupdate test failing on Solaris7]

| On Sep 13, 2000, Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > $ echo `expr "-" : '-[^=]*=\(.*\)'` | > expr: syntax error | | > However the patch sent correct this anyway :-) | | Nope, `echo' is also subject to `-' problems. | | The right fix is one of: | | option=`expr "x$1" : 'x-[^=]=

Re: [Autoconf] Failed tests on Solaris-2.5/Sparc

> "Bernard" == Bernard Dautrevaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernard>The other one is the test for macro AC_FUNC_STRTOD; in Bernard> fact the macro runs OK saying that 'strtod()' is broken on Bernard> this machine and that 'pow()' is in libm.a (I don't know why Bernard> we test for p

[Autoconf] FREE CD RATESERVICE OPENS ON THE INTERNET

Regards, As an institutional investor, we are sending you this email today to let you know that a FREE Certificate of Deposit RATESERVICE has opened on the Internet at http://www.RateService.com that is specially suited for you! RATESERVICE FEATURES: ~ Hundreds of FDIC Insured Certificat

[Autoconf] Re: What compiler was it?

Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:42:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry for the slow reply. I was on vacation. You made the following change in Autoconf: Thu May 28 18:37:36 1998 Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (AC_TRY_CPP): Remove lines from stde

Re: [Autoconf] FREE CD RATESERVICE OPENS ON THE INTERNET

Can the autoconf and automake lists please be configured to *not* add [listname] to the Subject line? Subject: [Autoconf] FREE CD RATESERVICE OPENS ON THE INTERNET Subject: [Automake] FREE CD RATESERVICE OPENS ON THE INTERNET ^^ My spam filters are greatly complicated by

[Autoconf] Testsuite fails to catch shell errors

Hello! Somebody running Digital Unix reported recently a problem with AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ. It appears that the problem can be reproduced on GNU/Linux (and perhaps all other OS'es) but the testsuite fails to detect it. configure from this configure.in: AC_INIT AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ AC_OUTPUT p

[Autoconf] Re: What compiler was it?

Hello, Ian! > Here is the entire ChangeLog entry that I see in my copy of the > sources: > > Add support for Visual C++: I see. Sorry, I didn't notice that :-( On the positive side, your code has been removed in assumption that it was MS Visual C because warnings are now only checked fo

[Autoconf] Meta list issue: subject prefixes

Could the really annoying "feature" of mangling the subjects of incoming messages be turned off? Judging from other mailing lists that I'm on, this got globally turned on on all gnu.org mailing lists, and I personally find it highly annoying. Among other things, it significantly decreases the us