configure error

[Tim Wunder]

Has the fix been committed? I just tried (11:30 PM EDT) and still have the 
same problem.
Not a big deal... just wondering...

Tim

On Monday 05 May 2003 10:03 am, someone claiming to be Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We think we tracked this one down.  Hampton is finishing his tests
> on it now and should have a fix committed shortly for you guys to test.
>
> The problem is a spurious AC_LANG(C++) in the middle of a .m4 file
> that wound up changing the testing language.  This wasn't an issue in
> older versions of autoconf (because I think it just ignores the
> AC_LANG calls completely).
>
> -derek
>
> Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org> writes:
> > On Sunday 04 May 2003 2:32 pm, someone claiming to be Herbert Thoma wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > with the latest CVS I get this error in HEAD and stable branches.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > configure: error:
> > >
> > >   popt 1.5 or newer is required to build gnucash. You can download
> > >   the latest version from ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/popt/, or if
> > >   you're running Debian, install the libpopt-dev package.
> > >
> > > make: *** [config.status] Fehler 1
> >
> > So it's not just me...
> >
> > >From config.log:
> >
> > <quote>
> > configure:17552: checking for poptStrippedArgv in -lpopt
> > configure:17585:  -o conftest    conftest.cc -lpopt  -lm  -lm >&5
> > /home/dad/gnc_cvs/gnucash2/gnucash/configure: line 1: -o: command not
> > found configure:17588: $? = 127
> > configure: failed program was:
> > #line 17559 "configure"
> > #include "confdefs.h"
> >
> > /* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
> > #ifdef __cplusplus
> > extern "C"
> > #endif
> > /* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
> >    builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
> > char poptStrippedArgv ();
> > #ifdef F77_DUMMY_MAIN
> > #  ifdef __cplusplus
> >      extern "C"
> > #  endif
> >    int F77_DUMMY_MAIN() { return 1; }
> > #endif
> > int
> > main ()
> > {
> > poptStrippedArgv ();
> >   ;
> >   return 0;
> > }
> > configure:17605: result: no
> > configure:17620: error:
> >
> >   popt 1.5 or newer is required to build gnucash. You can download
> >   the latest version from ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/popt/, or if
> >   you're running Debian, install the libpopt-dev package.
> >
> >
> > ## ---------------- ##
> > </quote>
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tim
> >
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