Re: lynx-dev ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP

[dickey]

> I don't remember if this has been discussed before.  I just tried 
> autoconf for the first time.  I get: 
>  
>     address@hidden uname -a 
>     SunOS sanitas 5.5.1 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5 
>     address@hidden autoconf --version 
>     Autoconf version 2.12 
>     address@hidden m4 --version 
>     GNU m4 1.4 
>     address@hidden autoconf 
>     configure.in:304: warning: AC_HAVE_LIBRARY is obsolete; instead use 
> AC_CHECK_LIB 
>     autoconf: Undefined macros: 
>     ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP 
>     ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP 
>     ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP 
>     ***BUG in Autoconf--please report*** AC_DIVERT_HELP 
>  
> Configure then crashes on the AC_DIVERT_HELP problem. 
>  
> Thanks for any advice, 
> gil 

AC_DIVERT_HELP is a macro which I wrote (in a patch to autoconf) which
works around buffer-overflow in the shell's "here documents".  It's needed
to allow Lynx (and some other programs) to configure on older/less-efficient
platforms.

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey
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http://www.clark.net/pub/dickey