As a general rule, we're trying to migrate checking for specific
library features out of Autoconf and into gnulib or whereever.
This is true for POSIX interfaces as well as for non-POSIX;
for example, it's why AC_FUNC_FNMATCH is marked as an obsolescent
macro in Autoconf. (I'd like to remove more
> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:02:44 -0700
> From: Eric Blake
> CC: bug-autoconf@gnu.org
>
> > By digging into the produced Makefile's, I finally found that saying
> >
> > make AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=1
>
> Not quite - the preferred spelling is make V=1. AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY is
> an implementation
> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2012 07:56:49 -0700
> From: Eric Blake
> CC: bug-autoconf@gnu.org
>
> Have you considered priming a config.site cache to work around these
> problems by default?
I might do that, but I thought reporting the problems here will
contribute to their solution at some future time,
On 01/07/2012 07:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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Using reply-all is list policy, anyways.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place for discussing this issue. If
> it isn't, please point me to a better one.
>
> With latest ver
On 01/07/2012 07:38 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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Using reply-all is list policy, anyways.
>
> Configuring several packages for building on MS-Windows with MinGW, I
> bumped several times into a situation where the configure script
[Please CC me on the responses, as I'm not subscribed to the list.]
I'm not sure if this is the right place for discussing this issue. If
it isn't, please point me to a better one.
With latest versions of Autotools, compiling packages by default does
not show the full compilation/link command li
On 01/07/2012 07:37 AM, Nicky Prabowo wrote:
>
> testsuite.log
>
> ./base.at:488: ${CONFIG_SHELL-$SHELL} -c 'case `. ./syntax; echo $?` in
> 0|"") exit 77;; esac'
> stderr:
> ./syntax: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> stdout:
> ./base.at:496: ./configure $configure_opti
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Configuring several packages for building on MS-Windows with MinGW, I
bumped several times into a situation where the configure script
reports the lack of network-related functions such as gethostbyname,
getdomainname, and others.
