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Re: sim icq compilation
From: |
Akim Demaille |
Subject: |
Re: sim icq compilation |
Date: |
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:43:45 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Thanks for the report, unfortunately, it is about a problem in the
package you were trying to configure, not from Autoconf itself.
Please, forward this bug report to the authors of the package,
together with the following piece of information. Thanks!
Header Present But Cannot Be Compiled
=====================================
The most important guideline to bear in mind when checking for
features is to mimic as much as possible the intended use.
Unfortunately, old versions of `AC_CHECK_HEADER' and `AC_CHECK_HEADERS'
failed to follow this idea, and called the preprocessor, instead of the
compiler, to check for headers. As a result, incompatibilities between
headers went unnoticed during configuration, and maintainers finally
had to deal with this issue elsewhere.
As of Autoconf 2.56 both checks are performed, and `configure'
complains loudly if the compiler and the preprocessor do not agree.
For the time being the result used is that of the preprocessor, to give
maintainers time to adjust their `configure.ac', but in the near
future, only the compiler will be considered.
Consider the following example:
$ cat number.h
typedef int number;
$ cat pi.h
const number pi = 3;
$ cat configure.ac
AC_INIT
AC_CHECK_HEADERS(pi.h)
$ autoconf -Wall
$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking pi.h usability... no
checking pi.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: pi.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: pi.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: pi.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to address@hidden ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ##
checking for pi.h... yes
The proper way the handle this case is using the fourth argument (*note
Generic Headers::):
$ cat configure.ac
AC_INIT
AC_CHECK_HEADERS(number.h pi.h,,,
[[#if HAVE_NUMBER_H
# include <number.h>
#endif
]])
$ autoconf -Wall
$ ./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for number.h... yes
checking for pi.h... yes
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Hi,
I installed Slackware 9.0 and I get the following error when tring to compile
sim-icq (downloaded from cvs repository).
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h: check for missing prerequisite
headers?
configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h: proceeding with the
preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING: ## Report this to address@hidden ##
configure: WARNING: ## ------------------------------------ ##