On 08/24/2010 03:04 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Date:   Tue Aug 24 14:03:32 2010 -0700
>
>      AC_HEADER_STDBOOL: avoid spurious failure with modern xlc
>
>      * lib/autoconf/headers.m4 (AC_HEADER_STDBOOL): Move the "bool e =
>      &s;" test into the main program, as C99 might plausibly be
>      interpreted as not requiring support for this construction in
>      static initializers.  Remove the "#if defined __xlc__" stuff, as
>      the bug is not present in recent xlc implementations, and they
>      reject the test for other (valid) reasons.  People using ancient
>      xlc versions, if any, are suggested to update to fixed versions.
>      Reported by Ralf Wildenhues in the thread starting at:
>      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2010-08/msg00103.html

Thanks.  Are you planning on syncing this back to gnulib as well?

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