Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn

2014-08-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
> On Aug 7, 2014, at 23:20, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Garrett Cooper wrote: > >> configure:3527: loading site script /mnt/freebsd-ports//Templates/config.site > ... >> | : ${ac_cv_header_spawn_h=yes} > > That's your problem. Your config.site file claims that there's a spawn.h, > but there isn't

Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Garrett Cooper wrote: configure:3527: loading site script /mnt/freebsd-ports//Templates/config.site ... | : ${ac_cv_header_spawn_h=yes} That's your problem. Your config.site file claims that there's a spawn.h, but there isn't. I stay away from config.site files myself, as they're trouble

Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn

2014-08-04 Thread Paul Eggert
My guess is that the FreeBSD 7 host has a stray /usr/include/spawn.h. There shouldn't be such a file, but if you try to upgrade to 8.x and then downgrade back to 7.x the file is left behind, and this messes up configuration. Try removing the stray file. Or, if you don't have root access, try

Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn

2014-07-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding gnulib] > > On 07/30/2014 07:14 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: >> Hi, >> I recently tried to install m4 1.4.17 on FreeBSD 7 (which doesn't >> have posix_spawn) and I ran into build errors with execute.c; it was >> looking for posix_spawn-

Re: execute.c doesn't have fallback for systems without posix_spawn

2014-07-30 Thread Eric Blake
[adding gnulib] On 07/30/2014 07:14 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hi, > I recently tried to install m4 1.4.17 on FreeBSD 7 (which doesn't > have posix_spawn) and I ran into build errors with execute.c; it was > looking for posix_spawn-related constants and the API, which didn't > exist. > I'