On 11/17/07, Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alexey Zakhlestin wrote:
> > On 11/17/07, Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> As pogma explained in the thread "[Fink-devel] I need help with a2ps" 6
> >> days ago, using a very recent autoconf should solve this problem.
> >
> > The latest we have in fink is 2.60 and it is not "new enough"
>
> You'd need to grab autoconf from git for this to work.

I just thought, that having a patched version of autoconf in fink
would be quite useful, until official update arrives.

> I could not follow the link you posted, links brought up a page that
> said "Your search returned no results".
>
> gcc calls dsymutil when it creates an executable directly from a source
> file with debugging enabled. e.g.
>
> gcc -o foo -g foo.c
>
> This is so that debugging information will be available (with Xcode-3.0
> the default debugging format is dwarf).

thanks for the theory. always good to know the cause of changes. :)

>
> Some autoconf macros test for features using $CC $CFLAGS -o conftest
> conftest.c then rm conftest*, this usually results in a warning during
> configure, however really old autoconfs fail to detect the correct exe
> extension and instead of '' set it to '.dSYM', this causes some problems :)
>
> Perhaps php uses a custom test for exeext, because I thought this
> problem did not occur on newer autoconf releases. Anyway, the proper
> forum is probably either [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the php lists.

I guess, php-guys will just send me to autoconf-guys ;)

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/

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