Re: working strerror_r not properly detected

[Benno Schulenberg]

address@hidden wrote:
> > This happens because in line 170 of lib/error.c
> > HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R appears not to be defined.
>
> That's because it is not using the macro in m4/strerror_r.m4 but
> the one included in autoconf-2.5, which defines STRERROR_R_CHAR_P
> instead; the attached patch should fix it.

Thanks, that fixes it for me.  But would this work on a really, 
really old system?  Wouldn't the general solution be to check for 
both HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R and STRERROR_R_CHAR_P?

As you are apparently at home in the auto* stuff, something else: 
autogen.sh fails to make a symlink to the mkinstalldirs script.  
Any idea what's the cause of that?

Benno