Re: Problem configuring from CVS

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Mårten Svantesson wrote:
> "Alejandro Aguilar Sierra" <asierra servidor unam mx> writes:
>
> > Hello:
> >
> > I downwloaded an compiled 91-pre1 without much problems (I just had to
> > update some packages).
> >
> > But when I try to configure dia from CVS, I got this error message:
> >
> > [...]
> > checking for gzread in -lz... yes
> > checking math.h usability... yes
> > checking math.h presence... yes
> > checking for math.h... yes
> > checking for isinf in -lm... yes
> > ./configure: line 12253: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
> > ./configure: line 12253: `fi'
> >
> > Any hint?
>
> Somehow I think I am to blame. It seems like some versions of autoconf
> generate bad scripts from the templates in configure.in to find isinf. A
> patch for configure.in that fixes this (for me at least) is attached.

It looks like that works.  It'll go in unless there's reports of
brokenness, as it is a tighter test than mine.

-Lars

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