Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Rice
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Bruno Haible wrote: Tim Rice wrote: The build fails on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 Here is a snipet of the build log make all-am make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/gnu/m4-1.3.10/lib' source='/opt/src/gnu/m4-1.4.10/lib/gl_array_list.c'

simplification of longlong.m4 and ulonglong.m4

2007-10-31 Thread Bruno Haible
The files longlong.m4 and ulonglong.m4 still contain some macros marked as obsolete. I remove them (also in gettext). 2007-10-31 Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] * m4/intmax_t.m4 (gl_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T, gt_AC_TYPE_INTMAX_T): Use AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT instead of

Re: AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT and AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT

2007-10-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: 2007-10-26 Bruno Haible [EMAIL PROTECTED] * lib/autoconf/types.m4 (_AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_SNIPPET): New macro, extracted from AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT and AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT. (AC_TYPE_LONG_LONG_INT, AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT): Use it.

regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-10-31 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 it appears that gnulib regex.m4 declares my regex broken: config.cache:818:gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_working=${gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_working=no} this is weird given that the system is an fc5 (glibc 2.4). are your sure glibc 2.4 has a

Re: regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-10-31 Thread Sam Steingold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Steingold wrote: it appears that gnulib regex.m4 declares my regex broken: config.cache:818:gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_working=${gl_cv_func_re_compile_pattern_working=no} this is weird given that the system is an fc5 (glibc 2.4). are

Re: regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-10-31 Thread Paul Eggert
Sam Steingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it appears that gnulib regex.m4 declares my regex broken: glibc was broken through 2.5; see the comments in m4/regex.m4. That probably explains your symptom. If you'd like more explanation, you can dig through config.log to find the source code of the

Re: regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-10-31 Thread Paul Eggert
Sam Steingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is a glibc system and should be using the exact same code. gnulib regex has a couple of bugs fixed, compared to older glibc. incidentally, why isn't ac_use_included_regex cached? Typically we don't cache things that can be computed cheaply. Can't

Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-10-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Tim Rice wrote: - the brand and version of cc ? $ gcc --version 2.95.2 Thanks. - grep -i bool config.status ? $ grep -i bool config.status s,@STDBOOL_H@,|#_!!_#|stdbool.h,g s,@HAVE__BOOL@,|#_!!_#|1,g That's the problem: The autoconf test has determined that _Bool exists, but the

Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Rice
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bruno Haible wrote: Can you please try two more snippets? == snippet3.c typedef _Bool ac__type_new_; int main () { if ((ac__type_new_ *) 0) return 0; if (sizeof

Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-10-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello, Tim Rice wrote: Can you please try two more snippets? == snippet3.c typedef _Bool ac__type_new_; int main () { if ((ac__type_new_ *) 0) return 0; if (sizeof

Re: coreutils failure on Mac OS X 10.5

2007-10-31 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Jim, Peter O'Gorman wrote: checking for working mktime... yes checking for SVID conformant putenv... no checking for working strtod... yes Good. This means that only 'putenv' and possibly 'realpath' are affected. Jim, here is a proposed patch to the 'putenv' module. Apart from changing

Re: bool on Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1

2007-10-31 Thread Tim Rice
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Bruno Haible wrote: Well, then in a normal situation the AC_HEADER_STDBOOL macro should not have set HAVE__BOOL to 1. I guess you have either the CONFIG_SITE variable set, or a config.site file somewhere, or passed a --config-cache option to configure, or you configured

Re: regex.m4 test too strict?

2007-10-31 Thread Sam Steingold
* Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-31 16:47:06 -0700]: Sam Steingold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: incidentally, why isn't ac_use_included_regex cached? Typically we don't cache things that can be computed cheaply. Can't it be computed cheaply, assuming