Re: Configure bug when CPPFLAGS is set

["Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com>]

On Oct 30, 2005, at 12:57 , Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2005-10-30 16:34:04 +0100, Karim Belabas wrote:
>
> > Contrary to autoconf-style AC_CHECK_HEADERS, Configure doesn't  
> > trust the
> > host to have a decent configuration, and e.g. know where its  
> > headers and
> > libraries are. So we actually look for files, instead of compiling  
> > small
> > programs (which gives more robust answers, but fails more often).
>
> I've never had any problem with compiling small programs via autoconf
> (each time it failed, this was really because something was missing).

As a special feature of Mac OS X, 10.4, you now have an odd-ball  
include file, /usr/include/readline.h, which is supposed (I think) to  
provide some of the GNU readline features, via the 'editline' library.

It interferes with anything that is used to using libreadline, and my  
solution was to remove (rename, move, ...) that header file.  After  
that, things work fine (since the library in question doesn't  
conflict by name, there is no additional hassle).

I have not heard of any problems with this solution, but I suspect it  
might interfere with building something in the Darwin base.

Regards,

Justin

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