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Why you don't have email by Senor Barborito 03/05/2003, 9:33pm PST
OK, here's the problem I've been leaving and coming back to for the past few weeks.

When running configure for stunnel-4.04 I get the following error message:

checking size of unsigned char... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (unsigned char), 77
$

Now when I run configure for stunnel-3.22 it works ('yes' where the error message is in the former line and about 5-10 more sizeof checks until the end of the script.)

Alright, so, let's see what the difference is in the sizeof ( unsigned char a); code GNU autoconf throws at gcc is in each case, shall we?

As far as I can tell (search string on unsigned char), all the test programs using unsigned chars are _EXACTLY_ identical, and there are the exact same number of each.

Now while it's possible to install without running configure (if extremely unpleasant), if this was just a common error where that was the workaround and not an indicator of something nasty there would be some note of it appearing somewhere in google - right?

Hint: there isn't. Not a damned thing as far as I can tell.

I'm getting pissed and/or worried about this one. Any advice?
--SB
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