Re: configure: error: ERROR MACROS NOT FOUND: please report to developers [PATCH]

Re: configure: error: ERROR MACROS NOT FOUND: please report to developers [PATCH]

[Peter Stephenson]

"Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson" wrote:
> Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> writes:
> 
> > The following covers both cases, but may be too general:
> >
> > '#[ 	]*define[ 	][ 	]*E[0-9A-Z]*[ 	]*(_HURD_ERRNO )?\(?[_A
> -Z0-9]'
> >
> 
> I haven't tried compiling 4.3 (yet) but that RE seems to work on Zeta.

(I've moved this to zsh-workers.)

The generality problem should be fixed if we keep the header with the most
matches.

> P.S. The sources on http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Arc/cvs.html are *way* too
> old, afaik -- from 2006/06/15.

This is probably to do with the changes at Sourceforge.  I'm not sure
whose keeping the Sunsite stuff up to date at the moment.

Index: configure.ac
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/zsh/zsh/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -r1.51 configure.ac
--- configure.ac	2 Mar 2006 17:56:49 -0000	1.51
+++ configure.ac	29 May 2006 15:53:08 -0000
@@ -1312,16 +1312,25 @@
 $AWK '{ if ($1 ~ /err/) files[[$1]] = $1 }
   END { for (var in files) print var }'`"
 rm -f nametmp.c
-for ERRNO_H in $errfile_list /dev/null
+lnerrs=0
+for ERRNO_TRY_H in $errfile_list /dev/null
 do
   dnl Try to make sure it doesn't get confused by files that don't
   dnl have real error definitions in.  Count definitions to make sure.
-  nerrs=`test -f $ERRNO_H && \
-  $EGREP '#[ 	]*define[ 	][ 	]*E[0-9A-Z]*[ 	]*(_HURD_ERRNO \()?[0-9]+\)?' $ERRNO_H | \
+  dnl Definitions of error numbers have become more and more general, so
+  dnl pick the file with the most matches, which must be at least 7.
+  dnl Careful with cut and paste in the pattern: the square brackets
+  dnl must contain a space and a tab.
+  nerrs=`test -f $ERRNO_TRY_H && \
+  $EGREP '#[ 	]*define[ 	][ 	]*E[0-9A-Z]*[ 	]*(_HURD_ERRNO )?\(?[_A-Z0-9]' $ERRNO_TRY_H | \
   wc -l | sed 's/[ 	]//g'`
-  test "x$nerrs" != x && test "$nerrs" -ge 7 && break
+  if test "x$nerrs" != x && test "$nerrs" -ge 7 && test "$nerrs" -gt "$lnerrs"
+  then
+    lnerrs=$nerrs
+    ERRNO_H=$ERRNO_TRY_H
+  fi
 done
-if test x$ERRNO_H = x"/dev/null"; then
+if test x$ERRNO_H = x; then
   AC_MSG_ERROR(ERROR MACROS NOT FOUND:  please report to developers)
 fi
 zsh_cv_path_errno_h=$ERRNO_H

-- 
Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
Web page now at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/p.w.stephenson/

Re: configure: error: ERROR MACROS NOT FOUND: please report to developers [PATCH]

[Bart Schaefer]

On 2006/05/29,  4:55pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} > P.S. The sources on http://zsh.sunsite.dk/Arc/cvs.html are *way* too
} > old, afaik -- from 2006/06/15.
} 
} This is probably to do with the changes at Sourceforge.

In case anyone is reading this in the zsh-workers archives some years from
now:  No, SourceForge has not invented time travel.  They mean 2005/06.