Re: Compile errors

[Michael Carmack]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 05:12:49PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
> >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Carmack <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Michael> On versions 1.3.2a, 1.4, 1.5.4, compiles always fail
>     Michael> because usleep is apparently detected as an int instead
>     Michael> of a void. This is a gnu/linux system, kernel 2.4.10,
>     Michael> glibc 2.1.3, gcc 2.95.3, binutils 2.11.2.
> 
> Your log shows that ./configure incorrectly concluded that the return
> type of usleep on your system is int.
> 
> Probably this is because the corresponding code in configure.in is not
> robust enough.  Can you send the few lines around the declaration of
> usleep in your unistd.h file; then we can try to improve the detection
> code.

I found the problem: Absolute paths to /usr/include/unistd.h. In version
1.4 this occurs on line 204 of configure.in. The problem is that my
unistd.h doesn't live in /usr/include, so it isn't found and the script
defaults to void.

m.