Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-11 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:55:27PM CEST: > On 09/09/2010 11:44 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >I think such knowledge has a place in autoconf.texi and maybe also > >Autoconf macros, too. This is not just interesting for gnulib. > > Hmm - autoconf already has a node Header Portabi

Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-10 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/09/2010 11:44 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: [ adding bug-autoconf ] * Mats Erik Andersson wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:19:08AM CEST: The quick punch lines first: * is __NOT__ self-contained, neither for OpenBSD, nor FreeBSD. * is __NOT__ self-contained for FreeBSD. In cont

Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-10 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Mats, Thank you for the additional details. I'm applying the attached workaround. > I have verified the above failures with the given snippets, Thanks. These are precisely the kind of tests that are most convincing evidence. > Like there is a test whether is self-contained > in any given OS

Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-09 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
[ adding bug-autoconf ] * Mats Erik Andersson wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:19:08AM CEST: > The quick punch lines first: > >* is __NOT__ self-contained, neither for OpenBSD, nor FreeBSD. > >* is __NOT__ self-contained for FreeBSD. > > In contrast, > >* __is__ self-containe

Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-09 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
torsdag den 9 september 2010 klockan 21:39 skrev Bruno Haible detta: > Hello Mats, > > Thank you for your reports. Can you please also say on which > versions of OpenBSD and FreeBSD you observed the problems? > I need this info for investigating and for documenting the issue. > > Bruno The quic

Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-09 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Mats, Thank you for your reports. Can you please also say on which versions of OpenBSD and FreeBSD you observed the problems? I need this info for investigating and for documenting the issue. Bruno

Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.

2010-09-09 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Hello, in working on GNU Inetutils I have been forced to observe that the autoconfiguration fails for OpenBSD or FreeBSD in two instances (for which I see a solution), and that these ought to be mended by Gnulib. Tests related to utmp and openpty/forkpty, which are activated by the configure scri