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Re: fnmatch test in configure script broken
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Larry Jones |
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Re: fnmatch test in configure script broken |
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Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:54:51 -0500 (EST) |
wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at writes:
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> The configure script checks for the fnmatch function (used
> by cvs via configure.in's AC_FUNC_FNMATCH) in autoconf 2.53
> do not detect fnmatch on NetBSD correctly. Thus, the compatibility
> function in the cvs sources is unnecessarily used.
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> This was fixed somewhere between autoconf 2.53 and 2.57.
2.54, I'd wager, since the following appears in its NEWS file:
- AC_FUNC_FNMATCH now tests only for POSIX compatibility, reverting to
Autoconf 2.13 behavior. The new macro AC_FUNC_FNMATCH_GNU also
tests for GNU extensions to fnmatch, and replaces fnmatch if needed.
-Larry Jones
The hardest part for us avant-garde post-modern artists is
deciding whether or not to embrace commercialism. -- Calvin