Re: [Bug-wget] wget devel build problem with autoconf 2.66

[Jochen Roderburg]

Zitat von Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden>:

> Jochen Roderburg <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > With the brand-new autoconf v2.66 the wget build process does not work
> > any longer with error message:
> >
> > configure.ac:172: error: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF: requires literal arguments
> > ../../lib/autoconf/types.m4:765: AC_CHECK_SIZEOF is expanded from...
> > configure.ac:172: the top level
>
> Thanks for you report.  I have pushed the fix Maciej suggested.
>
> I am not sure yet if these checks are really needed or they can be
> dropped, I will dig better into this.
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe

These fixes are not wrong, but they do not fix the seen problem.  ;-)

It looks like this is really a bug in the new autoconf. I googled now  
for the error message and found already numerous complaints about this  
and also an unofficial patch.
Affected are constructions like AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([some-type *]) with a '*'.

But when I tried now to understand the effects of this check, I saw  
also something else:
It was used to create a #define SIZEOF_VOID_P in src/config.h, which  
has disappeared in another recent change although this define is still  
used (in one single place) in src/hash.c

Regards, J.Roderburg