missing ar.h -- problem in installing make-3.81

2010-08-29 Thread Sara Navidpour
Hi, I have downloaded make-3.81 and I am trying to install it but I get an error saying that ar.h is not found.. and in fact I cannot find this header file in the directory. Please let me know how can I resolve this problem? Thanks, Sara

Re: missing ar.h -- problem in installing make-3.81

2010-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi, I have downloaded make-3.81 and I am trying to install it but I get an error saying that ar.h is not found.. and in fact I cannot find this header file in the directory. In http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/ar_002eh.html you see that this header file is present on all

Re: Fwd: Automagic dependency on selinux

2010-08-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Bruno Haible wrote: Hi Jim, Johan Hattne wrote: ... trouble if e.g. findutils are compiled on a host where selinux is present, but run on a system without. For every somewhat complicated or possibly troublesome connection to an external package, it makes sense to have a --without-...

Re: Fix malloc, calloc, realloc

2010-08-29 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hello, * Eric Blake wrote on Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:12:27AM CEST: On 08/28/2010 01:55 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: M4 1.4.14.6-76d1-dirty works with git gnulib and my patch series on AIX 5.3! Yay. Thanks again, very much, for tracking that down, Ralf. I will be building one more m4

Re: Fwd: Automagic dependency on selinux

2010-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, Thanks for testing. However, HAVE_SELINUX_SELINUX_H *is* defined in config.h. That is due to the use of gl_CHECK_NEXT_HEADERS([selinux/selinux.h]) in selinux-selinux.m4, which ends up invoking AC_CHECK_HEADERS_ONCE([selinux/selinux.h]), which performs the check long before this

Re: Fix malloc, calloc, realloc

2010-08-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Ralf, Please note that the last patch from my series (or an equivalent fix which is acceptable to Bruno) is still needed for things to work on AIX. Oh, that wasn't clear to me, after you had retracted parts of your statements. Your patch is a little bit overkill, however, for situations