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Re: configure problem
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 12:50:07 -0800
- Subject: Re: configure problem
> When I try to build libc in a minimal chroot environment, configure
> fails while testing cpp functionality, because it uses <assert.h> for
> the tests, and assumes it's present (which it isn't)
Yes, this is arguably a bug in Autoconf. It would be better to use
limits.h or stddef.h. But I think there are other problems with empty
include/lib trees (the same thing bites when freshly setting up a
cross-compilation environment).