Re: Autoconf2.52h on BeOS R5.0.4!

[Akim Demaille]

| >
| >Keep this public please.
| 
| public?  does that mean bug-autoconf@  ?

Yep :)

| >| >
| >| >Dennis> shit.. almost everything failed..  :(
| >| >
| >| >I agree, although f*k was the first one that came to my mouth :)
| >| >
| >| >Here's something I found in man perldelta:
| >| >
| >| >       Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default
| >| >           (W signal) Perl has detected that it is being run with
| >| >           the SIGCHLD signal (sometimes known as SIGCLD) dis­
| >| >           abled.  Since disabling this signal will interfere
| >| >           with proper determination of exit status of child pro­
| >| >           cesses, Perl has reset the signal to its default
| >| >           value.  This situation typically indicates that the
| >| >           parent program under which Perl may be running (e.g.,
| >| >           cron) is being very careless.
| >| >
| >| >So, I'm going to ask you to run:
| >| >
| >| >        perl -w -e 'use strict;exit 0;'
| >| 
| >| [bebox2:~ ]$ perl -w -e 'use strict;exit 0;'
| >| Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
| >| [bebox2:~ ]$
| >
| >OK, now could you please run:
| >
| >perl -w -e 'use strict;$SIG{"CHLD"} = "DEFAULT";exit 0;'
| 
| Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
| [bebox2:~ ]$
| 
| >
| >and
| >
| >perl -w -e '$SIG{"CHLD"} = "DEFAULT";use strict;exit 0;'
| 
| Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
| [bebox2:~ ]$
| 
| >
| >and
| >
| >perl -w -e 'BEGIN { $SIG{"CHLD"} = "DEFAULT";}; use strict;exit 0;'
| 
| Can't ignore signal CHLD, forcing to default.
| [bebox2:~ ]$
| 

Hm...  It looks like it is impossible to avoid the message.  I guess
even perl --version triggers the problem, right?