Re: ABSOLUTE_STDINT_H being expanded as an empty string (Sun cc 5.0, 5.8 on Solaris 7, 8)

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello, and apologies for chiming in late,

* James Youngman wrote on Sat, May 26, 2007 at 02:41:02PM CEST:
>
> I guess it's possible that the problem is caused by my calling
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS(stdint.h) either at all or in the wrong place, but to
> be honest while I have looked at the code for gl_ABSOLUTE_HEADER, I
> can neither easily figure out whether the code
> 
> `(eval "$ac_cpp conftest.$ac_ext") 2>&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD |
> sed -n 
> '\#/]m4_quote(m4_defn([gl_HEADER_NAME]))[#{s#.*"\(.*/]m4_quote(m4_defn([gl_HEADER_NAME]))[\)".*#\1#;s#^/[^/]#//&#;p;q;}'`
> 
> is being invoked at all, not whether this is really the cause of the 
> problem.

To meet posix requirements, the sed script needs newlines after `{' and
instead of all the `;', see autoconf manual.  Not that I think it helps
for your specific problem, though.

Cheers,
Ralf
-- 
apologies for brevity -- typing one-handed ATM