From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by coral.primenet.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA02958 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 06:42:25 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA29783; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:44:43 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 16:44:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Zoltan Hidvegi Message-Id: <199608222043.WAA15420@bolyai.cs.elte.hu> Subject: Re: 3.0.0 configure failure (bug in autoconf 2.10?) To: schaefer@nbn.com Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:43:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <960819224346.ZM20595@candle.brasslantern.com> from Bart Schaefer at "Aug 19, 96 10:43:46 pm" Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36 1)2669833 ext: 2667, home phone: (36 1) 2752368 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"L5tkY2.0.HH7.wQC7o"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/2050 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu > Linux 1.3.15, gcc 2.7.0, ELF. [...] > checking for lstat... no [...] This is an autoconf bug but only happens with obsolate libc versions like 5.0.9 which used some preprocessor hacks on lstat because of some incompatible kernel changes made sometime between linux-1.0 and linux-1.2. Recent libc's use elf hacks to solve the problem. You should better upgrade your libc and your kernel. It is also mentioned in Etc/MACHINES. Zoltan