git 1.8.4.1 configure should ship TYPE_SOCKLEN_T source macro

From: Tim Mooney <tim.mooney@ndsu.edu>
Date: Oct 25, 2013, 23:26 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.SOC.2.11.1310251814410.29200@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>

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I'm building git 1.8.4.1 on x86_64-pc-solaris2.11 (OpenIndiana 151a8, one of the opensource distributions that came out of the OpenSolaris project).

Although git is quite portable, there are a couple of long-standing issues with configure when building on Solaris (what libraries are needed for socket() and related network functions, and how to get gettext()). When patching configure.ac for these issues, it's necessary to rebuild configure from configure.ac.

Unfortunately, git doesn't include the one non-standard m4 macro it depends on, TYPE_SOCKLEN_T. This makes it impossible to completely rebuild configure from configure.ac.

It would be nice if git would do what other packages do in this situation: ship (probably in a "m4" or "build-aux" directory) all the non-standard m4 macros that the package requires.

Note also that TYPE_SOCKLEN_T is the deprecated name of that macro, the current version appears to be AX_TYPE_SOCKLEN_T. See:

 	http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf-archive.git;a=blob_plain;f=m4/ax_type_socklen_t.m4

If possible, please consider including this macro in future versions of the git releases.

Thanks!

Tim

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