Re: Tru64 5.1 sys/ucred.h: present but cannot be compiled

[Akim Demaille]

| System: HP Tru64 5.1
| Fresh download of GNU coreutils 5.0, gcc not installed.
| 
| ./configure produces
| 
| checking sys/ucred.h usability... no
| checking sys/ucred.h presence... yes
| configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: present but cannot be compiled
| configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: check for missing prerequisite headers?
| configure: WARNING: sys/ucred.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result
| configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
| configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to address@hidden ##
| configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
| checking for sys/ucred.h... yes
| checking for sys/mount.h... (cached) yes
| 
| On this box, including sys/ucred.h requires including sys/types.h first to
| get definitions of u_short, u_long, uid_t and gid_t.
| 
| Ian Redfern (address@hidden)

Thanks, I installed the following patch.

Index: ChangeLog
from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>

        * doc/autoconf.texi (Header Portability): ucred.h.
        From Ian Redfern.

        * lib/autoconf/status.m4: Fix and adjust copyright notices.
Index: THANKS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/THANKS,v
retrieving revision 1.111
diff -u -u -r1.111 THANKS
--- THANKS 19 May 2003 18:14:25 -0000 1.111
+++ THANKS 23 May 2003 07:13:50 -0000
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@
 H.J. Lu                     address@hidden
 H. Merijn Brand             address@hidden
 Ian Lance Taylor            address@hidden
+Ian Redfern                address@hidden
 Ilya Zakharevich            address@hidden
 James A. Lupo               address@hidden
 Jason Molenda               address@hidden
Index: doc/autoconf.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/autoconf/autoconf/doc/autoconf.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.737
diff -u -u -r1.737 autoconf.texi
--- doc/autoconf.texi 22 May 2003 21:52:44 -0000 1.737
+++ doc/autoconf.texi 23 May 2003 07:13:51 -0000
@@ -4322,6 +4322,9 @@
 @item @file{sys/socket.h}
 On Darwin, @file{stdlib.h} is a prerequisite.
 
address@hidden @file{sys/ucred.h}
+On HP Tru64 5.1, @file{sys/types.h} is a prerequisite.
+
 @item @file{X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h}
 Using XFree86, this header requires @file{X11/Xlib.h}, which is probably
 so required that you might not even consider looking for it.