Re: Checking default headers

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Ross Lagerwall <address@hidden> wrote:
> diff --git a/lib/autoconf/headers.m4 b/lib/autoconf/headers.m4
> index 7f5dbce..cc7e1c8 100644
> --- a/lib/autoconf/headers.m4
> +++ b/lib/autoconf/headers.m4
> @@ -329,7 +329,6 @@ ac_includes_default="\
>  # include <unistd.h>
>  #endif"
>  ])dnl
> -AC_REQUIRE([AC_HEADER_STDC])dnl
>  # On IRIX 5.3, sys/types and inttypes.h are conflicting.
>  AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/types.h sys/stat.h stdlib.h string.h memory.h 
> strings.h \
>                   inttypes.h stdint.h unistd.h],


This isn't quite enough for backward compatibility's sake.  You've
reminded me that I had a half-completed patch series that addresses
this issue -- I've dusted them off and finished them now.  Coming to
autoconf-patches shortly.

zw