Re: bug in AC_FUNC_MEMCMP [Re: Autoconf 2.49e

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 22, 2001, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:

> That turned out to be due to a typo in acfunctions.m4 that induced
> the following syntax in configure (note the extra `main').
> Interestingly, the test program compiles and links without error
> and always exits successfully.

Gee!  Good catch!

The nested main() is being compiled as a nested function, that is
never used.  Interesting...

> Here's a patch that is probably what was intended:

> 2001-04-22  Jim Meyering  <address@hidden>

>       * acfunctions.m4 (AC_FUNC_MEMCMP): Remove `int main () {' and the
>       trailing `}' since AC_LANG_PROGRAM provides them.

This is ok, please install it.

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