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RE: [HACKERS] 6.4 BETA2 fails to compile on Digital Unix 4.0d

Taral <taral@mail.utexas.edu>

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From: "Taral" <taral@mail.utexas.edu>
To: "The Hermit Hacker" <scrappy@hub.org>, "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es>, "PostgreSQL hackers mailing list" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-10-29T17:51:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 	If its a bug in autoconf itself, we can patch the autoconf .m4
> files directly on Hub.Org, and just make sure we autoconf with that...I
> have no problemsm with that...

*** acspecific.m4.orig  Thu Oct 29 12:43:02 1998
--- acspecific.m4       Thu Oct 29 12:49:39 1998
***************
*** 81,87 ****
  AC_PROG_CC_WORKS
  AC_PROG_CC_GNU

! if test $ac_cv_prog_gcc = yes; then
    GCC=yes
  dnl Check whether -g works, even if CFLAGS is set, in case the package
  dnl plays around with CFLAGS (such as to build both debugging and
--- 81,87 ----
  AC_PROG_CC_WORKS
  AC_PROG_CC_GNU

! if test "$ac_cv_prog_gcc" = yes; then
    GCC=yes
  dnl Check whether -g works, even if CFLAGS is set, in case the package
  dnl plays around with CFLAGS (such as to build both debugging and
***************
*** 215,221 ****
  AC_DEFUN(AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
  [AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])dnl
  AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CPP])dnl
! if test $ac_cv_prog_gcc = yes; then
      AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional,
        ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional,
  [  ac_pattern="Autoconf.*'x'"
--- 215,221 ----
  AC_DEFUN(AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
  [AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC])dnl
  AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CPP])dnl
! if test "$ac_cv_prog_gcc" = yes; then
      AC_CACHE_CHECK(whether ${CC-cc} needs -traditional,
        ac_cv_prog_gcc_traditional,
  [  ac_pattern="Autoconf.*'x'"

Should work... if the other message is correct about the source of the
problem. There really needs to be a sanity check for --with-cc or whatever
it is.

Taral