[asterisk-dev] autoconf errors

[Tzafrir Cohen]

FYI, the problem below stillexists (at least here) with 1.4.0. Now fixed
by file (thanks!) in
http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk?view=rev&rev=48960

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 04:26:33AM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I get the following errors from running autoconf on 1.4 (48475)
> 
> $ autoconf
> configure.ac:259: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
> ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:421: AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS is expanded from...
> ../../lib/autoconf/functions.m4:1677: AC_FUNC_STRNLEN is expanded from...
> configure.ac:259: the top level
> configure.ac:259: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
> configure.ac:259: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_AIX
> ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:455: AC_AIX is expanded from...
> configure.ac:259: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_AIX
> configure.ac:259: warning: AC_COMPILE_IFELSE was called before AC_MINIX
> ../../lib/autoconf/specific.m4:474: AC_MINIX is expanded from...
> configure.ac:259: warning: AC_RUN_IFELSE was called before AC_MINIX
> 
> 
> I fail to find ../../lib/autoconf/ . There is no /usr/lib/autoconf.
> There are no ../lib or ../../lib . /usr/share/autoconf/autoconf contains the
> standard autoconf files, including specific.m4 . 
> 
> Running an strace of things, I can't really figure out whereconfigure.ac
> is called. Line 259 of configure.ac seems rather harmless.
> 
> I initially had an older version of autoconf installed. this has been
> removed from the system. I have double checked that. 
> 
> 
> Fix for that, which I don't really understand: remove that offending 
> STRLEN line.
> 
> ===================================================================
> --- configure.ac        (revision 48475)
> +++ configure.ac        (working copy)
> @@ -256,7 +256,6 @@
>  AC_FUNC_STAT
>  AC_FUNC_STRCOLL
>  AC_FUNC_STRFTIME
> -AC_FUNC_STRNLEN
>  AC_FUNC_STRTOD
>  AC_FUNC_UTIME_NULL
>  AC_FUNC_VPRINTF
> 
> autoconf 2.61 on Debian Etch.

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