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

On Thu, 29 Oct 1998, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo(at)euitt(dot)upm(dot)es> writes:
> > 1 - The old "configure --with-CC=cc" problem is still there: configure
> > fails if you specify --with-CC=cc when it is going to test whether the C
> > compiler needs the "-traditional" flag. I think I remember it was due to a
> > bug in autoconf itself, so there isn't much to be done, except patch the
> > configure script by hand before making the release. I can supply a patch,
> > if needed.
>
> Can you send me the details on this one? I'm not real eager for us to
> try to apply a hand patch to configure (it would get lost, because we
> change configure.in and rerun autoconf every few days, seems like).
> But maybe there is another way. In any case, I can try to make sure
> that the next release of Autoconf fixes the underlying problem.

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...

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org