"Peter O'Gorman" <peter@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > see http://pogma.com/misc/autoscrewup.txt for the transcript. Thanks for checking this. Please bear with me, as I can't easily test this directly. How about the following further patch, which I just now installed? 2006-07-20 Paul Eggert <eggert@xxxxxxxxxxx> * lib/autoconf/libs.m4 (AC_PATH_XTRA): Don't use -R if the compiler complains about it, even if things works after the complaint. Problem reported by Peter O'Gorman. --- lib/autoconf/libs.m4 17 Jul 2006 17:34:05 -0000 1.19 +++ lib/autoconf/libs.m4 20 Jul 2006 22:27:26 -0000 @@ -399,6 +399,8 @@ else # others require no space. Words are not sufficient . . . . AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether -R must be followed by a space]) ac_xsave_LIBS=$LIBS; LIBS="$LIBS -R$x_libraries" + ac_xsave_werror_flag=$ac_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_werror_flag + ac_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_werror_flag=yes AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()], [AC_MSG_RESULT([no]) X_LIBS="$X_LIBS -R$x_libraries"], @@ -407,6 +409,7 @@ else [AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]) X_LIBS="$X_LIBS -R $x_libraries"], [AC_MSG_RESULT([neither works])])]) + ac_[]_AC_LANG_ABBREV[]_werror_flag=$ac_xsave_werror_flag LIBS=$ac_xsave_LIBS fi _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf