bug report for autoconf

[Max Dinter]

hi ;)

an installation of the xinetd package on my gentoo 1.4 linux system produced
following output .
thought i send the mail as requested , if you need any more info about my
system for tracking this
bug (if it really is a bug) , please lemme know , i'll be happy to comply ;)

max dinter


address@hidden xinetd.d # emerge xinetd
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/xinetd-2.3.12 to /
>>> Downloading http://gentoo.linux.no//distfiles/xinetd-2.3.12.tar.gz
--16:58:32--  http://gentoo.linux.no//distfiles/xinetd-2.3.12.tar.gz
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/xinetd-2.3.12.tar.gz'
Resolving gentoo.linux.no... done.
Connecting to gentoo.linux.no[193.201.220.90]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 292,202 [application/x-tar]

100%[=======================================================================
==============================================>] 292,202      681.03K/s
ETA 00:00

16:58:33 (681.03 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/xinetd-2.3.12.tar.gz' saved
[292202/292202]

>>> md5 src_uri ;-) xinetd-2.3.12.tar.gz
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking xinetd-2.3.12.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xinetd-2.3.12/work
>>> Source unpacked.
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-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 a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for main in -lcompat... no
checking for library containing gethostbyname... none required
checking for library containing getnameinfo... none required
checking for library containing inet_ntop... none required
checking for getnameinfo... yes
checking for inet_ntop... yes
checking for difftime... yes
checking for fcvt... yes
checking for ecvt... yes
checking for gcvt... yes
checking for strerror... yes
checking for strcasecmp... yes
checking for socket... yes
checking for inet_aton... yes
checking for setenv... yes
checking for strsignal... yes
checking for sys_siglist in -lc... yes
checking for gai_strerror... yes
checking for freeaddrinfo... yes
checking for getaddrinfo... yes
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 for sys/types.h... (cached) yes
checking sys/termios.h usability... yes
checking sys/termios.h presence... yes
checking for sys/termios.h... yes
checking termios.h usability... yes
checking termios.h presence... yes
checking for termios.h... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h usability... yes
checking sys/ioctl.h presence... yes
checking for sys/ioctl.h... yes
checking sys/select.h usability... yes
checking sys/select.h presence... yes
checking for sys/select.h... yes
checking rpc/rpc.h usability... yes
checking rpc/rpc.h presence... yes
checking for rpc/rpc.h... yes
checking rpc/rpcent.h usability... no
checking rpc/rpcent.h presence... no
checking for rpc/rpcent.h... no
checking sys/file.h usability... yes
checking sys/file.h presence... yes
checking for sys/file.h... yes
checking ftw.h usability... yes
checking ftw.h presence... yes
checking for ftw.h... yes
checking machine/reg.h usability... no
checking machine/reg.h presence... no
checking for machine/reg.h... no
checking linux/time.h usability... no
checking linux/time.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: linux/time.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: linux/time.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
configure: WARNING: linux/time.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##