["Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden>] Re: configure: a.out.h vs nlist.h

[Andreas Schwab]

It seems like AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG does not define NLIST_STRUCT any more,
even though getloadavg.c needs it and it is documentated.

Andreas.

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> Re: configure: a.out.h vs nlist.h
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> Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:07:37 +0200
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> > From: Sam Steingold <address@hidden>
> > Date: 24 Oct 2001 16:24:28 -0400
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> > > > From: Sam Steingold <address@hidden>
> > > > Date: 24 Oct 2001 12:55:05 -0400
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> > > > On the current CVS emacs, I get this:
> > > > getloadavg.c:356:24: a.out.h: No such file or directory
> > > > after 'make distclean; ./configure; make bootstrap'
> > > > on Solaris 2.5.1, gcc 3.0, autoconf 2.52.
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> > > That's weird: according to "cvs log", getloadavg.c didn't change since
> > > June 2000.  Could you please look closer at this and see what changed
> > > since the last pretest you built (did you build any pretests on that
> > > machine?).
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> > > Is it possible that this is the first time some of the tools are used,
> > > or a new version of some tool?
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> > I think I was not clear enough.
> > the problem is obviously with the recent changes in the configuration
> > process, i.e., the check for a.out.h vs nlist.h (see the subject line)
> > in configure.  I suspect that when aclocal.m4 was dropped, the check
> > went away too, so the default include (a.out.h) is used now always.
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> The problem is not with aclocal.m4, it's with the new Autoconf: its
> AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG macro doesn't seem to define NLIST_STRUCT, and
> getloadavg.c needs that, at least on your system.
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> Andreas, could you please look into this?
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