Re: lynx-dev Cosmetic glitch in configure

[dickey]

> 
> Hello, Lyncei 
>  
> The first time I run configure, with nothing cached, I see: 
>  
>     checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... yes 
>     checking type of array argument to getgroups... gid_t 
>     checking for pid_t... yes 
>     checking for uid_t in sys/types.h... (cached) yes 
>  
> Apparently the redundant check for uid_t causes it to be 
> reported as cached the second time.  Startling, but harmless. 
it's just an eccentricity of autoconf.  It stores a symbol that's the
concatenation of the symbol it's looking for, and the place it finds it.
The first uid_t test is a side-effect of the (canned) getgroups test.
The second is explicit (and if I'd noticed it -- and knew that the
getgroups test _always_ tests for uid_t -- could remove it).
  
> -- gil 


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