Re: How do I fix 'missing template' problem ??

[Fr./Mrs. Susan Dittmar]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 12:35:31PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 05:21:52PM +0100, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
> > Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> > > 
> > > >>> "David" == David Kirkby <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > >  David> autoheader: missing template: ENABLE_POSIX_THREADS
> > >  David> Use AC_DEFINE([ENABLE_POSIX_THREADS], [], [Description])
> > > 
> > > The error message tells you what to do.  If you don't understand
> > > this, please grep the autoconf manual for `missing template'.

Yeah, it does. But it took me three weeks of trial and error
until I finally found out that this [Description] part, though,
if I understand correctly, just a man-readable remark, is *needed*
and may neither be left out nor left blank. (Same goes for
AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED.)

Susan