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Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 20:15:29 -0400
From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@cola112.scsn.net>
To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: joerg@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: acm broken in -current?
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On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 03:11:59PM -0700, Satoshi Asami wrote:
> This one is weird....
> 
> Satoshi
> -------
> ===>  Configuring for acm-4.7
> checking for ranlib
> checking how to run the C preprocessor
> checking for ANSI C header files
> checking for stdlib.h
> checking for malloc.h
> checking for unistd.h
> checking for elf.h
> checking for return type of signal handlers
> checking for X include and library files with xmkmf
> checking for -laudio
> checking for AuCloseServer
> checking for ACloseAudio
> checking for -lnsl
> checking for -lsocket
> checking for -ldnet_stub
> checking for -lbsd
> checking for -lm
> checking for strdup
> checking for gettimeofday
> checking for setsid
> checking for rand
> checking for random
> Hmm. Your system does not support either random() or rand().
> ACM needs one of the random number generators to operate.
> *** Error code 1

    Well, I can tell you that it's failing because:

    1) The configure script looks for elf.h (we have it), and decides
       we are SVR4.
    2) The configure script adds '-lelf' to the list of libraries to
       link with (we don't have it).
    3) When the configure script tries to compile the test file that
       determines whether or not we have rand{om}, it fails because
       ld cannot find -lelf.

    I have no idea what the right fix is.

    Strangely, I find that if I execute 'configure' with `sh -x configure`,
    it succeeds(!)...  What do you make of that?

-- 


                                            Donald J. Maddox
                                            (dmaddox@scsn.net)