Re: coreutils 5.0.90 "present but cannot be compiled" (Solaris 9, c89)

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here is a patch.  (Perhaps all of coreutils should invoke
> AC_CHECK_HEADERS in the new form?

I'm reluctant to do that everywhere, because it feels a little
bit like papering over what might be a real problem.

> But I wasn't that ambitious here.)
>
> 2003-08-05  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * m4/prereq.m4 (jm_PREREQ_PHYSMEM, jm_PREREQ_STAT): Ignore headers
>       that are present but cannot be compiled.  This avoids spurious warnings
>       on Solaris 9 sparc with Forte Developer 7 C 5.4.

Thanks!
I've applied that.