Re: teTeX-2.0.1

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:34:36PM +0100, Olaf Weber wrote:
> Luc Van Eycken writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I just tried to compile teTeX 2.0.1 and I encountered a configuration
> > problem on some platforms. Due to the additional inclusion of
> > <X11/Intrinsic.h> in AC_PATH_X_DIRECT, the number of arguments of XtMalloc
> > is checked. But the correct number of arguments of XtMalloc is 1 and not 0,
> > resulting in a configuration test failure (cf. config.log), at least on
> > some platforms, such as Alpha or SGI, but not on other ones, such as Linux.
> > On SGI platforms, it results in a wrong library path.
> 
> > The solution is to either remove the "#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>" line
> > again or, as stolen from a recent autoconf, to apply the patch included
> > below and to reautoconf.
> 
> > I always had the feeling that messing around with an antique autoconf would
> > backfire one day :)
> 
> > Best regards,
> 
> How about?

We posted a patch for this against tetex-2.0 to the main tetex mailing
list. Here it is again. I think the select patch is for AIX.

-- 
albert chin ([email protected])

-- snip snip
--- texk/etc/autoconf/acspecific.m4.orig	Mon Feb  3 18:47:42 2003
+++ texk/etc/autoconf/acspecific.m4	Mon Feb  3 18:48:02 2003
@@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@
 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #endif
-extern select ($ac_cv_func_select_arg1,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg5);],,dnl
+extern int select ($ac_cv_func_select_arg1,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg234,$ac_cv_func_select_arg5);],,dnl
         [ac_not_found=no ; break 3],ac_not_found=yes)
       done
      done
@@ -2519,7 +2519,7 @@
   # Don't add to $LIBS permanently.
   ac_save_LIBS="$LIBS"
   LIBS="-l$x_direct_test_library $LIBS"
-AC_TRY_LINK(, [${x_direct_test_function}()],
+AC_TRY_LINK([#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>], [${x_direct_test_function}(1)],
 [LIBS="$ac_save_LIBS"
 # We can link X programs with no special library path.
 ac_x_libraries=],