Re: [FAILURE] XEmacs 21.0-beta38 on MkLinux

Hrvoje> I think I see what is going on: Hrvoje> 1) XEmacs configure process simply checks for `matherr' function, Hrvoje> without actually verifying that it accepts `struct exception'. In Hrvoje> my opinion, this is OK. Hrvoje> 2) Under C++, `struct exception' cannot work, so XEmacs does not use Hrvoje> HAVE_MATHERR at all. This is, again, OK. Hrvoje> 3) One glibc snapshot contains math.h which has `struct exception' Hrvoje> unconditionally removed. This is *not* OK. Hrvoje> The right solution is to keep XEmacs sources the way they are, and let Hrvoje> glibc people fix their header. If I understand correctly, this has Hrvoje> already been done. Correct. In a future release we will simply stop using matherr, since it is an anachronism. For the time being, we will do nothing. Martin