Re: dlfcn.h

[Eric Blom]

Thanks for the quick reply Noah and James.

Also, thanks for your work with GNU!!

Eric


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On May 19, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Noah Misch wrote:

> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:44:37PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
> > On 5/19/07, Eric Blom <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected  
> > > by the preprocessor!
> > > configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's  
> > > result
> > > configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> > > configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
> > > configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> >
> >
> > There are two bugs here.   The first is, as I understand things, that
> > the author of the package which you are trying to configure has  
> > failed
> > to set up something that would normally make "Report this to
> > address@hidden" actually say "Report this to
> > some-more-useful-mailing-list."    I suspect that the fact that
> > autoconf allows package maintainers to fail to set the variable  
> > is, in
> > fact, essentially a bug in autoconf.
>
> Autoconf 2.57 generates configure scripts that always ask for a  
> report to
> address@hidden  Autoconf 2.59 and later ask for a report to  
> the package
> bug report address, if specified, or else to "the GNU foo  
> lists" (for example).
> It will take time for installations of Autoconf 2.57 die out, and  
> even longer to
> obsolete all package releases bootstrapped with Autoconf 2.57.   
> These reports
> will trickle in for years to come.