Re: Possible bug in configure script

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> The configure script of wget 1.21.1 seems to have a bug, which becomes visible
> at least on old Mac OS X versions which use old GCC 4.2, see this report:
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62134. It's my assumption that the tests for
> C99 and C11 capabilities are incorrect while the maintainer assumes that it's
> a bug in gnulib I should report. Could you check whether we are both wrong?
> Or right?

In my understanding, it's a bug in Autoconf:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/support/?110425>

The workaround is to set CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 -std=gnu99" instead of
CC="/usr/bin/gcc-4.2", before running configure.

Bruno