similar to: [PATCH] autoconf tweaks for C99 compilers

fallocate() is linux specific and will preallocate the space on disk for the entire file. FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE does not change the filesize as reported by stat(). An aborted transfer will have preallocated disk space which is not "visible" via stat(). This shouldn't matter unless the user does complet his transfer. An alternative would be to use ftruncate() and shorten the file to the

> From: Akim Demaille <akim at epita.fr> > Date: 17 Sep 2001 11:22:19 +0200 > > | 2001-09-16 Tim Van Holder <tim.van.holder at pandora.be> > | * lib/autoconf/functions.m4: (AC_FUNC_GETPGRP) Don't rely on > | setpgrp() being present. I looked into that problem a bit more. Several programs use AC_FUNC_GETPGRP and GETPGRP_VOID, including Bash, Gawk, and

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hi, building OPENSSH v4.3p2 on OSX 10.4.7, all's fine (config, nake, install, exec) out-of-the-box. so, to be clear, this is NOT a blocker, by any stretch ... that said, however ... if, instead of a don't-monkey-with-it build, prior to ./configure, i: autoreconf -i -f then, a subsequent: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr/local/openssh \

I've tried to build R 2.6.1 and 2.7.0 on Solaris 10 update 4 (SPARC) and both configure ok, so you might ask why I suspect there is a problem. I tried to build the maths program Sage http://www.sagemath.org/ version 3.0.3alpha1. Sage fails when building R 2.6.1 - (Sage includes R in the package). The relavant bit of Sage, which is only using an unmodified R configure script is: checking

From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> Use the macro like this to create temporary variables which are automatically cleaned up when the scope is exited: { CLEANUP_FREE (char *, foo, strdup (bar)); /* char *foo = strdup (bar) */ ... // no need to call free (foo)! } On GCC and LLVM, this is implemented using __attribute__((cleanup(...))). On other