[ python-Bugs-1160534 ] Autoconf failure on FreeBSD 5.3, and AC_INIT set incorrectly

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Bugs item #1160534, was opened at 2005-03-10 11:19
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Category: Build
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Richard Brooksby (rptb1)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Autoconf failure on FreeBSD 5.3, and AC_INIT set incorrectly

Initial Comment:
Begin forwarded message:

Date: 8 March 2005 18:20:48 GMT
To: bug-autoconf at gnu.org
Subject: Autoconf asked me to tell you about this bug

On a clean FreeBSD 5.3 machine, do:

  cd /usr/local/lang/python
  make install

and you will see, amongst other things:

checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking ncurses.h usability... no
checking ncurses.h presence... yes
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: present but cannot be compiled
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: check for missing prerequisite 
headers?
configure: WARNING: ncurses.h: proceeding with the 
preprocessor's result
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
configure: WARNING:     ## Report this to bug-autoconf at gnu.org. 
##
configure: WARNING:     ## ------------------------------------ ##
checking for ncurses.h... yes
checking poll.h usability... yes
checking poll.h presence... yes
checking for poll.h... yes
checking pthread.h usability... yes
checking pthread.h presence... yes
checking for pthread.h... yes

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Begin forwarded message:

Date: 9 March 2005 11:47:03 GMT
To: Richard Brooksby <rb at ravenbrook.com>
Cc: bug-autoconf at gnu.org
Subject: Re: Autoconf asked me to tell you about this bug

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:20:48PM +0000, Richard Brooksby 
wrote:
On a clean FreeBSD 5.3 machine, do:
  cd /usr/local/lang/python

you should report this bug to the bug report address of the 
"python"
project.  Tell them to read the section "Present But Cannot Be 
Compiled"
of the manual to autoconf-2.59.

They have misconfigured the bug report address in AC_INIT, so 
also tell
them to change it to *their* bug report address.



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>Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-03-12 23:36

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That information does not help to resolve the problem, and
it is not clear that it is a problem in Python's configure -
it could be a bug in your operating system installation also.

Please attach the config.log.

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