pkg/31221: BasiliskII fails in configure phase on netbsd-3 (i386)

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

>Number:         31221
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       BasiliskII fails in configure phase on netbsd-3 (i386)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Sep 08 15:15:00 +0000 2005
>Originator:     Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
>Release:        NetBSD 3.0_BETA
>Organization:
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>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD quiche 3.0_BETA NetBSD 3.0_BETA (QUICHE) #4: Mon Sep 5 22:10:05 
CEST 2005 hauke@quiche:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/QUICHE i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

        Building emulators/BasiliskII fails during "configure" with

[...]

checking AvailabilityMacros.h usability... no
checking AvailabilityMacros.h presence... no
checking for AvailabilityMacros.h... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... (cached) yes
checking for inline... (cached) inline
checking for short... yes
checking size of short... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short), 77
See `config.log' for more details.
*** Error code 1

The work/.work.log and config.log files can be found under

http://la.causeuse.org/hauke/NetBSD/pkgsrc/basilisk-pr.tar.gz


>How-To-Repeat:

        Build BasiliskII on a netbsd-3 machine. Watch the build fail early 
because
        it cannot figure out the size of 'sort'. WTF??!?

>Fix:
        Don't know. Some GNU autoconf voodoo, I suppose.

>Unformatted: