m4/strerror_r.m4

   1 #serial 1002
   2 # Experimental replacement for the function in the latest CVS autoconf.
   3 # If the compile-test says strerror_r doesn't work, then resort to a
   4 # `run'-test that works on BeOS and segfaults on DEC Unix.
   5 # Use with the error.c file in ../lib.
   6
   7 undefine([AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R])
   8
   9 # AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R
  10 # ------------------
  11 AC_DEFUN([AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R],
  12 [AC_CHECK_DECLS([strerror_r])
  13 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strerror_r])
  14 if test $ac_cv_func_strerror_r = yes; then
  15   AC_CHECK_HEADERS(string.h)
  16   AC_CACHE_CHECK([for working strerror_r],
  17                  ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works,
  18    [
  19     AC_TRY_COMPILE(
  20      [
  21 #       include <stdio.h>
  22 #       if HAVE_STRING_H
  23 #        include <string.h>
  24 #       endif
  25      ],
  26      [
  27        char buf[100];
  28        char x = *strerror_r (0, buf, sizeof buf);
  29      ],
  30      ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works=yes,
  31      ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works=no
  32     )
  33     if test $ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works = no; then
  34       # strerror_r seems not to work, but now we have to choose between
  35       # systems that have relatively inaccessible declarations for the
  36       # function.  BeOS and DEC UNIX 4.0 fall in this category, but the
  37       # former has a strerror_r that returns char*, while the latter
  38       # has a strerror_r that returns `int'.
  39       # This test should segfault on the DEC system.
  40       AC_TRY_RUN(
  41        [
  42 #       include <stdio.h>
  43 #       include <string.h>
  44 #       include <ctype.h>
  45
  46         extern char *strerror_r ();
  47
  48         int
  49         main ()
  50         {
  51           char buf[100];
  52           char x = *strerror_r (0, buf, sizeof buf);
  53           exit (!isalpha (x));
  54         }
  55        ],
  56        ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works=yes,
  57        ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works=no,
  58        ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works=no)
  59     fi
  60   ])
  61   if test $ac_cv_func_strerror_r_works = yes; then
  62     AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_WORKING_STRERROR_R, 1,
  63       [Define to 1 if `strerror_r' returns a string.])
  64   fi
  65 fi
  66 ])# AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R