Re: simple br

[Joel Soete]

Hi Akim,

>-- Original Message --
>To: "Joel Soete" <address@hidden>
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: simple br
>From: Akim Demaille <address@hidden>
>Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 11:27:15 +0100
>
>
>
>
>Please, report this to the package maintainers, as it's a configure.ac
>problem.  The Autoconf 2.57 doc says:
>

No problem I will transmit it to Robert :)

>      Previous versions of Autoconf merely checked whether the header was
>   accepted by the preprocessor.  This was changed because the old test
was
>   inappropriate for typical uses.  Headers are typically used to compile,
>   not merely to preprocess, and the old behavior sometimes accepted
>   headers that clashed at compile-time.  If you need to check whether a
>   header is preprocessable, you can use `AC_PREPROC_IFELSE' (*note
>   Running the Preprocessor::).
>   
>      This scheme, which improves the robustness of the test, also requires
>   that you make sure that headers that must be included before the
>   HEADER-FILE be part of the INCLUDES, (*note Default Includes::).  If
>   looking for `bar.h', which requires that `foo.h' be included before if
>   it exists, we suggest the following scheme:
>   
>   
>   AC_CHECK_HEADERS([foo.h])
>   AC_CHECK_HEADERS([bar.h], [], [],
>   [#if HAVE_FOO_H
>   # include <foo.h>
>   # endif
>   ])
>
>Thanks!

Thanks to you for your attention,
    Joel

>
>| Hi all,
>| On going to rebuild the lib of autoopencas from "Robert Boehne" project
>I
>| encounter following message:
>| 
>| checking X11/extensions/multibuf.h usability... no
>| checking X11/extensions/multibuf.h presence... yes
>| configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/multibuf.h: present but cannot be compiled
>| configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/multibuf.h: check for missing prerequisite
>| headers?
>| configure: WARNING: X11/extensions/multibuf.h: proceeding with the 
>preprocessor's
>| result
>| configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>| configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
>| configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
>| checking for X11/extensions/multibuf.h... yes
>| 
>| So as mentionned in the message, I just report as this.
>| 
>| May be can I also mention that I am running an unstable Debian GNU/Linux
>| on a hppa-linux.
>| 
>| Fill free to ask me more helpfull detail to help you to fix this :-)
>| 
>| Regards,
>|     Joel
>| 
>| 
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