* m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Test for the existence of

lib/getloadavg.c using "ls -L", not "test -f".  The latter would
fail with a symlink, which is what coreutils' ./bootstrap now
creates by default.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7aaec0d7c806e57e45798724b06d2399058f0e4d..a0ef726482a86cfb78b38f2d3acbe63987555f35 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2006-10-12  Jim Meyering  <jim@meyering.net>
+
+       * m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Test for the existence of
+       lib/getloadavg.c using "ls -L", not "test -f".  The latter would
+       fail with a symlink, which is what coreutils' ./bootstrap now
+       creates by default.
+
 2006-10-12  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        * lib/inttypes_.h (_LONG_LONG_FORMAT_PREFIX): Don't define for MSVC or

diff --git a/m4/getloadavg.m4 b/m4/getloadavg.m4
index 8243729197ccd8d95b6433745a93629f2fe84b3f..a32d5c8edc6d97814ccbdb25924cba2f35b3745e 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/getloadavg.m4
+++ b/m4/getloadavg.m4
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_GETLOADAVG],
 [gl_have_func=no # yes means we've found a way to get the load average.
 
 # Make sure getloadavg.c is where it belongs, at configure-time.
-test -f "$srcdir/$1/getloadavg.c" ||
+ls -L "$srcdir/$1/getloadavg.c" >/dev/null ||
   AC_MSG_ERROR([$srcdir/$1/getloadavg.c is missing])
 
 gl_save_LIBS=$LIBS