> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This happens because in line 170 of lib/error.c > > > HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R appears not to be defined. > > > > That's because it is not using the macro in m4/strerror_r.m4 but > > the one included in autoconf-2.5, which defines STRERROR_R_CHAR_P > > instead; the attached patch should fix it. > > Thanks, that fixes it for me. But would this work on a really, > really old system? Wouldn't the general solution be to check for > both HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R and STRERROR_R_CHAR_P?
No need to, configure.in has an AC_PREREQ(2.53). > As you are apparently at home in the auto* stuff, something else: > autogen.sh fails to make a symlink to the mkinstalldirs script. > Any idea what's the cause of that? automake is responsible for that; no clue about it but you can add the '-c' option to its invocation to copy missing files instead of doing a symlink. -- Emanuele Giaquinta
