Re: Building m4 on BSDI 4.0.1

[Eric Blake]

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According to Chris McGuire on 1/12/2007 7:55 PM:
> That was it, worked fine!
> 

Hooray - the gnulib wchar module has seen its first happy customer.  I'll
check in the remaining m4 patches shortly; I've been camping on the ss_sp
vs. ss_base patch for almost a month now.  And it is one step closer to a
release of M4 1.4.9.

> 
> Thanks again... if you need me to try anything else, just let me know.

Can you run 'make check' to validate that everything built okay?

> 
> Also, how will this manifest itself to other software packages? What I mean 
> is, it is up to each author to include a newer version that detects this bug, 
> or is this a universal fix that should trickle down quickly to other open 
> source packages?  I'm sure that was a dumb question, but I think you get what 
> I'm asking. :)

Any GNU project that uses gnulib and is released on some date after today
will automatically be fixed.  See the current list of gnulib clients here:
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/gnulib/users.txt?rev=1.13&root=gnulib&view=auto

Other software packages will likely still encounter problems if they try
to use your broken <wchar.h> without the correct prerequisite headers.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
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