I'm getting a bit lost with info about both <stdint.h> versus <inttypes.h>, but does the following patch fix the problem?
2006-06-12 Paul Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * m4/stdint.m4 (gl_STDINT_H): Reject <stdint.h> if it doesn't declare intmax_t. Problem reported by Larry Jones and Derek Price in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2006-06/msg00030.html>. --- old/m4/stdint.m4 2006-01-09 05:20:01.000000000 -0800 +++ new/m4/stdint.m4 2006-06-12 09:25:44.000000000 -0700 @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/bitypes.h]) AC_MSG_CHECKING([for stdint.h]) AC_CACHE_VAL(gl_cv_header_stdint_h, [ - AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stdint.h>], [], + AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <stdint.h>], [intmax_t i = -1; return i != 0;], gl_cv_header_stdint_h=yes, gl_cv_header_stdint_h=no)]) AC_MSG_RESULT([$gl_cv_header_stdint_h]) if test $gl_cv_header_stdint_h = yes; then