[Patch] configure tests return instead of exit

Tim Rice tim at multitalents.net
Tue Sep 24 09:55:07 EST 2002


On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Darren Tucker wrote:

> Tim Rice wrote:
> [about OpenSSL configure test]
>
> On the subject of configure.ac, while R'ing the FM for autoconf I
> noticed the following at
> http://www.gnu.org/manual/autoconf/html_node/Guidelines.html:
>
> "Test programs should exit, not return, from main, because on some
> systems (old Suns, at least) the argument to return in main is ignored."
>
> Is there a reason some tests use return in configure.ac? If not, the
> attached patch changes them.

I finally got around to commiting your patch.
Thanks.


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