Re: unicode printf modules failures on powerpc

[Jim Meyering]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim, it might be a good idea to do the same thing in 
> coreutils/m4/jm-macros.m4.

Thanks.  I've just done this:

>From 2a8f5104cd4ee76dad4b803f04ec327e5199bcf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:48:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] m4: don't use AC_REQUIRE([AC_C_BIGENDIAN])

* m4/jm-macros.m4: Use AC_REQUIRE([gl_BIGENDIAN]) instead.
This avoids a subtle problem recently documented in autoconf:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=commitdiff;h=34e2c8d5484
---
 m4/jm-macros.m4 |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/m4/jm-macros.m4 b/m4/jm-macros.m4
index 335ec24..90c55bf 100644
--- a/m4/jm-macros.m4
+++ b/m4/jm-macros.m4
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
-#serial 108   -*- autoconf -*-
+#serial 109   -*- autoconf -*-

 dnl Misc type-related macros for coreutils.

-# Copyright (C) 1998, 2000-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1998, 2000-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_CHECK_ALL_TYPES],
   AC_REQUIRE([AM_C_PROTOTYPES])

   dnl Checks for typedefs, structures, and compiler characteristics.
-  AC_REQUIRE([AC_C_BIGENDIAN])
+  AC_REQUIRE([gl_BIGENDIAN])
   AC_REQUIRE([AC_C_VOLATILE])
   AC_REQUIRE([AC_C_INLINE])
   AC_REQUIRE([AC_TYPE_UNSIGNED_LONG_LONG_INT])
--
1.6.1.347.g0238