Re: autoconf-2.62 doesn't build on RHEL4

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 10:59 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Hi, Building autoconf-2.62 fails on RHEL4 ... checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... configure: error: no acceptable m4 could be found in $PATH. GNU M4 1.4.5 or later is required;

Re: fix for fugly autoconf 2.62 bug

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Per Øyvind Karlsen on 4/18/2008 7:58 PM: | Hi! Hello Per, | | Since we upgraded to latest autoconf in Mandriva, we've discovered some nasty | bug in autoconf breaking build of quite a few packages. Please report autoconf bugs to the

checking for headers presence even if usable

I'm not sure if this is really a bug, but I thought I'd mention it. It seems that autoconf 2.62 checks headers for presence even if they are already determined to have usability. For instance, given this configure.ac: AC_INIT([foo], [4.12], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) AC_CHECK_HEADER([stdio.h],