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From: mike@cs.utah.edu (Mike Hibler)
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To: charnier@lirmm.fr, kb@cs.umb.edu
Subject: Re: check SMART_PUTENV under FreeBSD?
Cc: mike@cs.utah.edu, tex-k@cs.umb.edu
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 06:20:11 -0500
> From: "K. Berry" <kb@cs.umb.edu>
> To: charnier@lirmm.fr
> Cc: tex-k@cs.umb.edu, mike@cs
> Subject: check SMART_PUTENV under FreeBSD?
>
> 5) I used SMART_PUTENV, run time error in function assert otherwise.
>
> Several people have reported that configure's test for SMART_PUTENV,
> contributed by mike@cs.utah.edu, doesn't work. I don't have FreeBSD, so
> can't check myself.
>
> The people who have investigated said that taking out the #if 0 and
> #endif in the test showed that it was computing the right thing (i.e.,
> it printed `#define SMART_PUTENV'). So I am extremely puzzled. The
> only thing that configure cares about is the return status -- supposed
> to be zero if SMART_PUTENV, nonzero otherwise.
>
> Can you or someone track this down for real?
>
> I suppose configure could just check for freebsd, but that seems a poor
> solution. Better to discover what is really wrong with the test.
>
Do you know what version of FreeBSD? I just tried it on 1.1.5(RELEASE)
and 2.1.0-Development and it seemed to do the right thing. I tried under
"sh", "csh" and "bash" and checked the status (either "$?" or "$status").
Can you send me the snippet of the configure script that builds/runs the
program?
Note that I have access to only the two freebsd machines so I may not be
able to give you the definitive answer.