Hi

(This mail is cross-posted for attention, please keep follow-ups on the
libcurl list.)

We have problems with the configure script on several platforms, I need help.

Before the 7.10.3 release, I upgraded to the latest autoconf (2.57) on the
machine I build the release archives on. As you shall see below, the new
additions from the fellows of the autoconf project have given us problems. To
make things worse, the configure output says to report the issue to
bug-autoconf_at_gnu.org, but they don't consider this a bug (as several people
already mailed them about this).

The configure script now checks for header files differently than before, it
no longer only checks for their presence, but also that they are "working".

This has the side-effect that header files that can't be compiled stand-alone
fail this test, unless we fix the configure.in file to properly include the
prerequisite header files first. I need help to figure out what header files
the failing headers require!

Also, if more people with more platforms would join the "autobuild" system
I've setup at http://curl.haxx.se/auto/, we would detect and fix problems
already when they appear and we could even fix problems and have them tried
out on systems we don't have physical access to...

CURRENT PROBLEMS

 * Rohit Srivastava on HP-UX 11.00, configure doesn't detect a working
   select() for him and thus the script bails out...

 * Ray DeGennaro on AIX, configure complains that net/if.h doesn't work. I
   don't quite know what effect this causes, but it might cause compiler
   errors when building libcurl or so.

 * peter at kassies.com (bug report #694936, the email address bounces) filed
   problems on Solaris 8 with netinet/if_ether.h

 * Jeremie Petit (bug report #699293) experiences problems on Tru64 5.1 and
   the header file netinet/if_ether.h.

So, I'm postponing the upcoming release in order to sort out some, if not
all, of these issues first.

Anyone?

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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