Re: Package global fails to compile on MacOS 11.1

[Michael Labbé]

Hello,

I see some traffic today on this issue and it reminded me that I reported it to the autoconf mailing list as requested.  However, I received a response that indicated the problem is indeed not in autoconf.

Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>:

This code does not come from Autoconf, so I'm unsure why you were asked
to report it here.

The code comes from the global package itself (in their configure.ac file):

 AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([[
 main(){ (void)realpath("/./tmp", (void *)0); return 0; }
 ]])],[ac_cv_posix1_2008_realpath=yes],
 [ac_cv_posix1_2008_realpath=no])

This is the where the problem needs to be corrected.

-Mike

On Jan 16, 2021, at 3:35 AM, Shigio YAMAGUCHI <shigio@gnu.org> wrote:

Hello,
Thank you for the report.

Could you please send this report to the autoconf bug mailing
list? Since this bug seems to be a autoconf's bug.
I cannot do anything, because I don't have a reproduction
environment for this problem.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Shigio

2021年1月15日(金) 13:22 Michael Labbé <mlabbe@gmail.com>:

Package global failed to compile on my arm 11.1 system. This is due to an error because realpath cannot be found. The fix is to modify configure to include stdlib.h.

Line 14291 of configure on global-6.6.5:

main(){ (void)realpath("/./tmp", (void *)0); return 0; }

Insert one line before that:

#include<stdlib.h>
main(){ (void)realpath("/./tmp", (void *)0); return 0; }

configure now succeeds.

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