On 3/24/20 3:07 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
On 2020-03-24, Ross Burton wrote:
As to why this is not broken with 2.69, I think I have a theory.
If I build e.g. acl with both 2.69 and master, it's notable that 2.69
has these lines in the output that do not exist in master:
checking how to run the C
On 2020-03-24, Ross Burton wrote:
> As to why this is not broken with 2.69, I think I have a theory.
>
> If I build e.g. acl with both 2.69 and master, it's notable that 2.69
> has these lines in the output that do not exist in master:
>
>> checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
>> chec
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 at 17:24, Nick Bowler wrote:
> No, this is exactly how AC_REQUIRE is supposed to be working. The configure
> script has a bug. Now I'm not sure why this fails for you only with latest
> autoconf, because AC_REQUIRE has worked like this for a very long time. It
> might have w
Hi Ross,
On 2020-03-24, Ross Burton wrote:
[...]
> AC_CHECK_FUNC(statvfs,[HAVE_STATVFS=yes])
> dnl Arg, linux and bsd put their statfs function in different places
> if test x"$HAVE_STATVFS" != x"yes"; then
>AC_EGREP_HEADER(statfs,sys/vfs.h,[AC_DEFINE(HAVE_VFS_H)],[
>
> AC_EGREP_HEADER(statfs
On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 at 23:20, Nick Bowler wrote:
> Can you expand more on what is failing for you? I just copy+pasted the
> above code into the following configure script:
I did a bit more digging. At no point is autoconf looking for egrep
for some reason with master. Specifically these lines
On 2020-03-23, Ross Burton wrote:
> apt 1.2.31 builds fine with autoconf 2.69. With git master:
>
> | checking for h_errno... configure: error: "not found."
>
> That code is:
>
> dnl HP-UX needs -d_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED for h_errno
> AC_MSG_CHECKING(for h_errno)
> AC_EGREP_HEADER(h_errno, netdb.h