Re: Warnings say to report this... so I am!

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* nci nci wrote on Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 06:31:59PM CEST:
> 
> What follows is the output of the Minicom configuration  script. I am
> trying to cross-compile for the Altera Nios2 (Elf) platform and have
> not yet been able to resolve the WARNINGS in the output below.

> ./configure --host=nios2-elf 
> --exec-prefix=/home/nick/sm3k_sw2/software/minicom-2.1
> configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
>     If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c

> checking locale.h usability... yes
> checking locale.h presence... no
[...]
> configure: WARNING: sys/param.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the 
> preprocessor!
> configure: WARNING: sys/param.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
[... more warnings like the above...]

Thanks for the bug report, and sorry for the delay.  Please read
  
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html

and then show it to the minicom maintainer, who can then fix this in his
package, if he hasn't done so already in a newer version.

Cheers,
Ralf