Also the function memchr could lead to a C++ test error, on those old platforms where it is missing. This should fix it.
2010-04-05 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> memchr: Avoid a possible C++ test error. * lib/string.in.h (memchr): Provide declaration if function is missing. * m4/memchr.m4 (gl_FUNC_MEMCHR): If the function is missing, set HAVE_MEMCHR to 0, not REPLACE_MEMCHR to 1. * m4/string_h.m4 (gl_HEADER_STRING_H_DEFAULTS): Initialize HAVE_MEMCHR. * modules/string (Makefile.am): Substitute HAVE_MEMCHR. --- lib/string.in.h.orig Mon Apr 5 13:08:13 2010 +++ lib/string.in.h Mon Apr 5 13:02:59 2010 @@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ _GL_ARG_NONNULL ((1))); _GL_CXXALIAS_RPL (memchr, void *, (void const *__s, int __c, size_t __n)); # else +# if ! @HAVE_MEMCHR@ +_GL_FUNCDECL_SYS (memchr, void *, (void const *__s, int __c, size_t __n) + __attribute__ ((__pure__)) + _GL_ARG_NONNULL ((1))); +# endif /* On some systems, this function is defined as an overloaded function: extern "C" { const void * std::memchr (const void *, int, size_t); } extern "C++" { void * std::memchr (void *, int, size_t); } */ --- m4/memchr.m4.orig Mon Apr 5 13:08:13 2010 +++ m4/memchr.m4 Mon Apr 5 13:02:59 2010 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# memchr.m4 serial 7 +# memchr.m4 serial 8 dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2004, 2009-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, @@ -13,12 +13,7 @@ dnl These days, we assume memchr is present. But just in case... AC_REQUIRE([gl_HEADER_STRING_H_DEFAULTS]) - AC_REPLACE_FUNCS([memchr]) - if test $ac_cv_func_memchr = no; then - gl_PREREQ_MEMCHR - REPLACE_MEMCHR=1 - fi - + AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE([memchr]) if test $ac_cv_func_memchr = yes; then # Detect platform-specific bugs in some versions of glibc: # memchr should not dereference anything with length 0 @@ -73,10 +68,14 @@ [dnl Be pessimistic for now. gl_cv_func_memchr_works="guessing no"])]) if test "$gl_cv_func_memchr_works" != yes; then - gl_PREREQ_MEMCHR REPLACE_MEMCHR=1 - AC_LIBOBJ([memchr]) fi + else + HAVE_MEMCHR=0 + fi + if test $HAVE_MEMCHR = 0 || test $REPLACE_MEMCHR = 1; then + AC_LIBOBJ([memchr]) + gl_PREREQ_MEMCHR fi ]) --- m4/string_h.m4.orig Mon Apr 5 13:08:13 2010 +++ m4/string_h.m4 Mon Apr 5 13:02:59 2010 @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ GNULIB_STRVERSCMP=0; AC_SUBST([GNULIB_STRVERSCMP]) HAVE_MBSLEN=0; AC_SUBST([HAVE_MBSLEN]) dnl Assume proper GNU behavior unless another module says otherwise. + HAVE_MEMCHR=1; AC_SUBST([HAVE_MEMCHR]) HAVE_DECL_MEMMEM=1; AC_SUBST([HAVE_DECL_MEMMEM]) HAVE_MEMPCPY=1; AC_SUBST([HAVE_MEMPCPY]) HAVE_DECL_MEMRCHR=1; AC_SUBST([HAVE_DECL_MEMRCHR]) --- modules/string.orig Mon Apr 5 13:08:13 2010 +++ modules/string Mon Apr 5 13:02:59 2010 @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ -e 's|@''GNULIB_STRVERSCMP''@|$(GNULIB_STRVERSCMP)|g' \ < $(srcdir)/string.in.h | \ sed -e 's|@''HAVE_MBSLEN''@|$(HAVE_MBSLEN)|g' \ + -e 's|@''HAVE_MEMCHR''@|$(HAVE_MEMCHR)|g' \ -e 's|@''HAVE_DECL_MEMMEM''@|$(HAVE_DECL_MEMMEM)|g' \ -e 's|@''HAVE_MEMPCPY''@|$(HAVE_MEMPCPY)|g' \ -e 's|@''HAVE_DECL_MEMRCHR''@|$(HAVE_DECL_MEMRCHR)|g' \