On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:03:11PM -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > You could ask that question about AC_CHECK_FUNC, too. The reasons are, > the variable might not be declared anywhere or where you are looking for > it (e.g., optind on hosts without unistd.h), or it might be declared and > you don't have the right libraries. To be sure, you must link.
your test does not distinguish between variables and functions which happen to have global addresses which are linkable. -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
