Thanks for the bug report and patch. I installed the following somewhat more-conservative patch instead. 2003-11-17 Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> * lib/autoconf/general.m4 (_AC_INIT_PREPARE): Put at least 14 bytes into the initial confdefs.h, to work around a bug in NextStep 3.3 patch 3 reported by Eric Sunshine. Index: lib/autoconf/general.m4 =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/lib/autoconf/general.m4,v retrieving revision 1.823 diff -p -u -r1.823 general.m4 --- lib/autoconf/general.m4 27 Oct 2003 11:12:52 -0000 1.823 +++ lib/autoconf/general.m4 17 Nov 2003 17:35:21 -0000 @@ -1203,7 +1203,9 @@ ac_signal=0 # confdefs.h avoids OS command line length limits that DEFS can exceed. rm -rf conftest* confdefs.h # AIX cpp loses on an empty file, so make sure it contains at least a newline. -echo >confdefs.h +# NextStep 3.3 (patch 3) loses unless the first echo outputs at least 14 bytes. +ac_space=' ' +echo "$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space$ac_space" >confdefs.h # Predefined preprocessor variables. AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([PACKAGE_NAME], ["$PACKAGE_NAME"],
