Re: Handling the standard header set

2000-07-29 Thread Assar Westerlund
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But autoconf itself doesn't do this; it instead goes to some lengths to track down the appropriate headers and include them rather than using its own prototypes. For example, see ac_include_default in acgeneral.m4. Which is the right way of doing it?

Re: Handling the standard header set

2000-07-29 Thread Jim Meyering
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | The autoconf documentation has this to say about the standard C headers: | | On systems without ANSI C headers, there is so much variation that | it is probably easier to declare the functions you use than to | figure out exactly what the

Re: Usage of GNU autoconf under Cygwin

2000-07-29 Thread Earnie Boyd
--- Andrew Makhorin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Earnie, I'm writing to thank you for your help. You're very welcome. I thought that there is full compatibility between GNU/Linux and Cygwin. Probably I was wrong. (I'm a novice in GNU/Linux as well as in Cygwin and many things are

Re: _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 not supported (was: Re: WARNING fileutils 4.0x-1 severly broken

2000-07-29 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:03:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Mark Kettenis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 01:22:03 +0200 Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 00:27:09 +0200 From: Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] The culprit is