Re: "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" - anyone want reports?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote on Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:11:21PM CET:
> > While compiling KDE 3.5.5 (from stable sources) on a almost-pristine(*) 
> > FC6/Zod machine, I get a number of "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" 
> > warnings.
>
> config.log tells you details about the warnings, the rest is here:
> <http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Present-But-Cannot-Be-Compiled.html>
>
> > I am not sure what "the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists" are; is this a 
> > good place to report them (and is anyone interested)?
>
> Oh.  I think there was a bug in Autoconf 2.60 and earlier that when a
> bug report address wasn't given, this could be output in some instances.
> Using
>   AC_INIT([package], [version], [bugreport-address])
>
> this shouldn't happen, though, neither with current Autoconf.  If so,
> please report a bug.

Hmm, ok so... I should report 'present but cannot be compiled' headers 
to the package maintainers (i.e. kde-devel), and should investigate if 
the lack of an address is KDE's fault (i.e. forgot AC_INIT) or 
autoconf's fault?

FYI this is what I get:
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to the AC_PACKAGE_NAME lists.  ##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------------ ##

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Matthew
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