Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> writes: > On Thu 04 Jun 2009 03:04, Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net> writes: > >> I built and installed libunistring this evening, to /usr/local, and >> now ./configure is failing for me at: >> >> checking size of float... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof >> (float) > > I had this at one point today, as well, when I had installed > libunistring into /opt/foo/ but had my libdir wrong (/opt/foo/lib vs > /opt/foo/lib64)...
Thanks for the ideas, Andy. I'm also wondering if libtool v1.5.26 is a factor (as against v2.2) - so now trying out libtool 2.2 from Debian testing. > While we're complaining about the build :-) It seems we require gperf > now. Is that correct? That's news to me. Where have you seen that? Regards, Neil