Re: [HACKERS] Status of 6.3.2 snapshot on alpha/Digital Unix

On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Pedro J. Lobo wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I've just compiled the latest 6.3.2 snapshot on Digital Unix 3.2g using
> DEC's C compiler. The regression tests look good, so go ahead with the
> release (at least for this platform).
>
> However, there are two minor "errors". One of them is already known:
> configure fails when --with-compiler is specified. Included is a patch to
> the configure script. I know that this is not the right file to patch,
> since it is generated from configure.in, but we can use it as a workaround
> since the error lies in autoconf. The patch should be re-applied every
> time autoconf is run.

    Any idea if a patch is possible for autoconf itself?

> The second "error" is a new one. The configure script no longer asks for
> additional include and lib directories, so, for example, it doesn't find
> my readline libs, installed under /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib.
> Since these are two common directories to have additional software
> installed into, I have added them to src/templates/alpha. Attached is a
> patch to make this change. It won't hurt even if the directories don't
> exist.

    ./configure --help should list both a '--with-includes=' and
'--with-libraries=' option :)