Re: functions in different libraries on different OSes.

2002-10-10 Thread Stewart Brodie
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Standard practice is probably to always write > > > #if HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H > > #include > > #endif > > There's no need to check for the existance of unless you're > at

Re: Libtool 1.4.3

2002-10-10 Thread Akim Demaille
| > You want autoconf -f then. | -f, --force consider all files obsolete | | We do a ./cvsclean right now for autoconf +2.50 which purges | all generated data. I guess that is basically the same. | | > You know, you are typically the kind of people who has valid grieve

Problems building Autoconf 2.54

2002-10-10 Thread Martin, Anthony
I am having problems building Autoconf 2.54.  Currently I have libtool 1.4.2, m4 1.4 and automake 1.7 installed.   To build, I used the commands:   ./configure --prefix=/export/local/gnu/autoconf make   My results are:   Making all in bin Making all in tests Making all in . making all in

Re: Problems building Autoconf 2.54

2002-10-10 Thread Paul Eggert
You don't mention your platform, but there is a known incompatibility of Autoconf 2.54 with traditional Unix make in that area. Please see: http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-September/008689.html http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-September/008692.html This pr

Re: functions in different libraries on different OSes.

2002-10-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Stewart Brodie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I still tend to check for it on the basis that I check all other header > files, so I might as well check that one. There are systems that do not > have sys/types.h. That way, all header file checks are done the same > way. That also means that I al