Having seen the message that a release might be imminent, I had a look at the patches for autoconf in http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/patches
so the attached might want to go in... Cheers, Patrick
>From ffc83effa49340314d71ff266d94b512e1f00e3a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Welche <pr...@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 09:41:38 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] AC_FUNC_ALLOCA: Don't define a prototype for alloca() on BSDs * alloca() is defined in stdlib.h on BSDs. From http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/devel/autoconf/patches/patch-aa --- lib/autoconf/functions.m4 | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/autoconf/functions.m4 b/lib/autoconf/functions.m4 index de7a6b8..c7b37df 100644 --- a/lib/autoconf/functions.m4 +++ b/lib/autoconf/functions.m4 @@ -384,6 +384,8 @@ AC_CACHE_CHECK([for alloca], ac_cv_func_alloca_works, # ifdef _MSC_VER # include <malloc.h> # define alloca _alloca +# elif defined(__NetBSD__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(__OpenBSD__) +# include <stdlib.h> # else # ifdef HAVE_ALLOCA_H # include <alloca.h> -- 1.8.0.1
