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Re: configure on linux

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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: guthrie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Guthrie)
Subject: Re: configure on linux
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:32:46 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <199607081611.MAA16536@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from John Guthrie at "Jul 8, 96 12:11:07 pm"
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary
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> zsh-3.0-pre2 compiles fine on linux, with a few warnings.  However, for the
> past several releases, configure has always failed to successfully determine
> that lstat is in fact on my system.  Here are the relevant lines from

It seems that you did not read Etc/MACHINES despite the note at the very
beginning of the README.  I quote the relevant part:

Linux:  If you are using an early minor version of libc 5, then a bug
        in the auto-configuration process may cause zsh to think that
        your system doesn't support the lstat function.  If the
        configure process reports that there is no lstat, edit
        config.h and change HAVE_LSTAT to 1.
        libc-5.2.18 or later does not have this problem.

Perhaps you use libc-5.0.9.  It is really time to upgrade now, especially
if you want to use Linux-2.0.  I think it is very unlikely that autoconf
will be fixed so if you do not want to upgrade your libc, manually editing
config.h seems to be the only solution.  As an alternative you may edit
config.cache and change ac_cv_func_lstat='no' to ac_cv_func_lstat='yes'.
Next time when configure finds this cache in the current directory it will
use the information provided there.

Zoltan

References:
- configure on linux
  - From: John Guthrie

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