[lokisetup] weird autogen warning

Ryan C. Gordon icculus at clutteredmind.org
Mon Jun 3 03:50:46 EDT 2002


> timo at spoutnik:~/icculus.org/loki_setup$ sh ./autogen.sh
> configure.in:32: warning: Cannot check for file existence when cross compiling

Actually, the lines it doesn't like are:

AC_CHECK_FILE(/dev/ptmx)
AC_CHECK_FILES(/dev/pts,/dev/ptc)

What is this, why do we need it, and what happens if they don't exist at
compile time? (And what happens if they don't exist where the binary runs,
regardless of the build system?)

--ryan.





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