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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Cc: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: 20.3-b1: SUCCESS (with tweaking) on sparc-sun-solaris2.5
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Reply-To: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>

>>>>> "Hrv" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

Hrv> I don't know how to tell you, but...  Aside from that, XEmacs
Hrv> compiles...  Correctly detects libraries, etc.  I can't believe that
Hrv> configure failed completely.

Hrv> This is what config.log says:

Hrv> configure:6926: checking size of short
Hrv> configure:6940: gcc -o conftest       -I/usr/dt/include  -I/usr/openwin/include  -fno-gnu-linker  -L/usr/ccs/lib    -L/usr/dt/lib  -L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib conftest.c   -lXm -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lXpm -lDtSvc -ltt  -lXau -lXmu -lXext -lXt -lX11  -lkvm -lkstat -lm     -lsocket -lnsl -lelf -lgen -ldl    1>&5
Hrv> configure: failed program was:
Hrv> #line 6929 "configure"
Hrv> #include "confdefs.h"
Hrv> #include <stdio.h>
Hrv> main()
Hrv> {
Hrv>   FILE *f=fopen("conftestval", "w");
Hrv>   if (!f) exit(1);
Hrv>   fprintf(f, "%d\n", sizeof(short));
Hrv>   exit(0);
Hrv> }

This failure is a complete mystery to me.  Is conftestval
write-protected??  Is this a link failure or a failure of the
resulting program when executing?  Note that most tests do not involve 
running programs, only linking - this may be a clue.

Folks, I'll need lots of help from you...

Martin

