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Usability but not presence

This, of course, …


checking foo.h usability... yes
checking foo.h presence... no
configure: WARNING: foo.h: accepted by the compiler, rejected by the preprocessor!
configure: WARNING: foo.h: proceeding with the compiler's result

… happens when your configure.in sets CFLAGS where it ought to have set CPPFLAGS.

This was written by bhyde. Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2005, at 9:54 am. Filed under programming. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

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Andrew A. Gill wrote:

Sigh. I’m currently hunting a bug in MPlayer which causes the program
to crash on SIGFPE when trying to play FLAC or MP3. I have quite a few
one-line fixes for MPlayer. Kinda pisses me off. I feel for you.

Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 12:52 pm | Permalink

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