cvs TRUNK failure to build (i386 FreeBSD)

[Mark D. Baushke]

It appears that the HAVE_DECL_FREE test is not being run properly.

Attempts to build the TRUNK on FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE fail with the
following:

% configure ...
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
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checking for awk... awk
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
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checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
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checking whether #! works in shell scripts... yes
checking for BSD VPATH bug in make... yes
checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes
checking for library containing opendir... none required
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating contrib/check_cvs
config.status: creating contrib/clmerge
config.status: creating contrib/cln_hist
config.status: creating contrib/commit_prep
config.status: creating contrib/cvs_acls
config.status: creating contrib/log
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config.status: creating contrib/mfpipe
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config.status: creating src/cvsbug
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config.status: creating src/sanity.config.sh
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config.status: creating windows-NT/Makefile
config.status: creating windows-NT/SCC/Makefile
config.status: creating zlib/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands
% gmake
...
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../cvs-nightly/lib -I.. \
  -I../../cvs-nightly/src -g -O2 -c `test -f \
  '../../cvs-nightly/lib/lstat.c' || \
 echo '../../cvs-nightly/lib/'`../../cvs-nightly/lib/lstat.c
In file included from ../../cvs-nightly/lib/lstat.c:21:
../../cvs-nightly/lib/stat.c:50: syntax error before string constant
gmake[2]: *** [lstat.o] Error 1
...

In file stat.c, I see the following:
49      # ifndef HAVE_DECL_FREE
50      "this configure-time declaration test was not run"
51      # endif
52      # if !HAVE_DECL_FREE
53      void free ();
54      # endif

In config.h, I see the following:
65      /* Define to 1 if you have the declaration of `free', and to 0 if you 
don't.
66         */
67      /* #undef HAVE_DECL_FREE */

        
        -- Mark