configure failure

[Jason Stover]

For a recent cvs checkout, ./configure fails. It says

checking size of short... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77

config.log tells me this program failed:

| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.val", "w");
|   if (! f)
|     exit (1);
|   if (((long) (sizeof (short))) < 0)
|     {
|       long i = longval ();
|       if (i != ((long) (sizeof (short))))
|       exit (1);
|       fprintf (f, "%ld\n", i);
|     }
|   else
|     {
|       unsigned long i = ulongval ();
|       if (i != ((long) (sizeof (short))))
|       exit (1);
|       fprintf (f, "%lu\n", i);
|     }
|   exit (ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0);
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }
(I did not paste all the #include's here.)

But this program exits normally when I compile and run it
independently. config.log file points me to this
as the offending section of ./configure:

if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
  (eval $ac_link) 2>&5
  ac_status=$?
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
  (exit $ac_status); } && { ac_try='./conftest$ac_exeext'
  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
  ac_status=$?
  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
  (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
  ac_cv_sizeof_short=`cat conftest.val`
else
  echo "$as_me: program exited with status $ac_status" >&5
echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5

( exit $ac_status )
{ { echo "$as_me:$LINENO: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77
See \`config.log' for more details." >&5
echo "$as_me: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77
See \`config.log' for more details." >&2;}
   { (exit 1); exit 1; }; }
fi

Am I missing something obvious?

-Jason

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