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.

I was playing around with adding brackets for a while without any
improvement.  The tarball doesn't have the finite check, just the ieeefp.h
check.  I'll see if this one works.

-Lars

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