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 script, fail primarily due to the missing
inclusion of "<sys/types.h>" in the generated test sources
"conftest.c". This header file is not automatically included
in BSD, like it would be in GNU/Linux, thus the failure.
1. m4/readutmp.m4
This concerns OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
The test must be reformulated using
#ifdef HAVE_UTMP_H
# if
[...]
# endif
# include <sys/types.h>
# include <utmp.h>
#endif
2. m4/pty.m4
Here only FreeBSD is relevant. Four times the proper
header file inclusion must read
#ifdef HAVE_LIBUTIL_H
# include <sys/types.h>
# include <libutil.h>
#endif
Best regards,
Mats Erik Andersson, fil. dr
