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List:       autoconf-bug
Subject:    Re: dlfcn.h
From:       Eric Blom <ericb () psocdeveloper ! com>
Date:       2007-05-19 19:27:06
Message-ID: EB11022E-547D-48F7-9541-98627562EF71 () psocdeveloper ! com
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Thanks for the quick reply Noah and James.

Also, thanks for your work with GNU!!

Eric


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On May 19, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Noah Misch wrote:

> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:44:37PM +0100, James Youngman wrote:
>> On 5/19/07, Eric Blom <ericb@psocdeveloper.com> wrote:
>>> configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected  
>>> by the preprocessor!
>>> configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's  
>>> result
>>> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>>> configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-autoconf@gnu.org. ##
>>> configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>>
>>
>> There are two bugs here.   The first is, as I understand things, that
>> the author of the package which you are trying to configure has  
>> failed
>> to set up something that would normally make "Report this to
>> bug-autoconf@gnu.org." actually say "Report this to
>> some-more-useful-mailing-list."    I suspect that the fact that
>> autoconf allows package maintainers to fail to set the variable  
>> is, in
>> fact, essentially a bug in autoconf.
>
> Autoconf 2.57 generates configure scripts that always ask for a  
> report to
> bug-autoconf@gnu.org.  Autoconf 2.59 and later ask for a report to  
> the package
> bug report address, if specified, or else to "the GNU foo  
> lists" (for example).
> It will take time for installations of Autoconf 2.57 die out, and  
> even longer to
> obsolete all package releases bootstrapped with Autoconf 2.57.   
> These reports
> will trickle in for years to come.
>


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