I get errors building ports/graphviz on FBSD 6.3 on alpha. It seems the error is due to configure script erroneously deciding that there is no strncasecmp function on OS.
Based on config.log: configure:9333: result: no configure:9253: checking for strncasecmp I think the following configure snippet is to blame. Could somebody explain, at least in general terms, what this piece of code does. many thanks anton 9249 9250 for ac_func in strcasecmp strncasecmp 9251 do 9252 as_ac_var=`echo "ac_cv_func_$ac_func" | $as_tr_sh` 9253 { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for $ac_func" >&5 9254 echo $ECHO_N "checking for $ac_func... $ECHO_C" >&6; } 9255 if { as_var=$as_ac_var; eval "test \"\${$as_var+set}\" = set"; }; then 9256 echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6 9257 else 9258 cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF 9259 /* confdefs.h. */ 9260 _ACEOF 9261 cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext 9262 cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF 9263 /* end confdefs.h. */ where as_tr_sh : 549 # Sed expression to map a string onto a valid variable name. 550 as_tr_sh="eval sed 'y%*+%pp%;s%[^_$as_cr_alnum]%_%g'" as_cr_alnum : 40 as_cr_alnum=$as_cr_Letters$as_cr_digits as_me : 132 # Name of the executable. 133 as_me=`$as_basename -- "$0" || ECHO_N and ECHO_C : 474 ECHO_C= ECHO_N= ECHO_T= 475 case `echo -n x` in 476 -n*) 477 case `echo 'x\c'` in 478 *c*) ECHO_T=' ';; # ECHO_T is single tab character. 479 *) ECHO_C='\c';; 480 esac;; 481 *) 482 ECHO_N='-n';; 483 esac -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"