> [bug-autoconf@ has a stupid filter that doesn't let me through, so I'm > posting here instead.] It should be fixed by now. Could you find out why you were blocked? > On some systems (eg. Linux) flock(2) does not work over network, but Perl > prefers that over fcntl(2) if it exists. So autoconf may fail on NFS if > the filesystem has been mounted with locking enabled. Would there be a nice solution?