3.0.20 Alpha configure on AIX4.3 for -lcom_err broken

Nik Conwell nik at bu.edu
Mon Nov 25 14:58:00 GMT 2002


I cvs'ed the latest 3.0.20 Alpha this morning...

On the configure, the test for _et_list in libcom_err.a doesn't seem to ever
work, even though _et_list is in com_err.  Perhaps it's marked as private?
(IBM cc or gcc, makes no difference.)  This results in no -lcom_err being added
to LIBS, and so the build of the smbd fails due to not finding _et_list and
error_message().  Manually adding -lcom_err to LIBS causes things to build OK.

I hacked the configure to look for error_message() in -lcom_err instead of
looking for _et_list, and that seems to have worked OK.

I'm not sure what this means for systems that don't need -lcom_err since the
test apparently only checks to see if it builds with the lib, and not if the lib
is superfluous.

-nik



9:43:55 acsn08 [source] gnudiff -u configure.20021125 configure
--- configure.20021125  Fri Nov 22 01:56:28 2002
+++ configure   Mon Nov 25 09:23:49 2002
@@ -12295,8 +12295,8 @@

   ##################################################################
   # we might need the k5crypto and com_err libraries on some systems
-  echo $ac_n "checking for _et_list in -lcom_err""... $ac_c" 1>&6
-echo "configure:12300: checking for _et_list in -lcom_err" >&5
+  echo $ac_n "checking for error_message in -lcom_err""... $ac_c" 1>&6
+echo "configure:12300: checking for error_message in -lcom_err" >&5
 ac_lib_var=`echo com_err'_'_et_list | sed 'y%./+-%__p_%'`
 if eval "test \"`echo '$''{'ac_cv_lib_$ac_lib_var'+set}'`\" = set"; then
   echo $ac_n "(cached) $ac_c" 1>&6
@@ -12309,10 +12309,10 @@
 /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
 /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
     builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
-char _et_list();
+char error_message();

 int main() {
-_et_list()
+error_message()
 ; return 0; }
 EOF
 if { (eval echo configure:12319: \"$ac_link\") 1>&5; (eval $ac_link) 2>&5; } && test -s conftest${ac_exeext}; then



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