This quadigraph used before a C preprocessor 'define' directive could
be fooling M4, when processing this file, and make it think that the
line contains a pure M4 'define' macro.

in top Makefile.am triggered a problem that prevented aclocal from running
successfully on SunOS 5.10 with GNU m4 1.4.5 and GNU Autoconf 2.61

A tarball which reproduces mentioned problem is the one dated July-28-2008
http://cool.haxx.se/curl-daily/curl-7.19.0-20080728.tar.gz

We actually don't need all the bells and whistles that the above mechanism
provides. We only need to include our m4/reentrant.m4 file in acinclude.m4
so here we go with this simpler mechanism.

Partially undo change that prevented SED, GREP, EGREP and AR from being changed by libtool or autoconf.

definition which might be defined in config.h or config-*.h files

but it breaks aclocal execution on some systems, with the following error:

Can't locate object method "rel2abs" via package "File::Spec" at /usr/local/bin/aclocal line 256.

needed, and being able to define it if appropriate for further configure tests
as well as for the generated config file.

that other package's underquoted m4 function definitions have on ours.

needed, and being able to define it if appropriate for further configure tests
as well as for the generated config file.

Introduced reentrant.m4 intended for our reentrant related autotools/m4 macros.

actually verify if the test is properly working

setting as the one actually used when finally building the library.

data type for systems where this sixth argument is prototyped as a void pointer.

Start of thread: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2008-07/0153.html

now cause the definition of RECVFROM_TYPE_ARG2_IS_VOID, RECVFROM_TYPE_ARG5_IS_VOID
or RECVFROM_TYPE_ARG6_IS_VOID, as appropriate.

function recvfrom as a result of the info additionally logged when running on a
Solaris system.

The compiler error showed that the prototype being used on Solaris was the one
declared in line 427 of "/usr/include/sys/socket.h" as:

function(int,
         pointer to void,
         unsigned int,
         int,
         pointer to struct sockaddr,
         pointer to void) returning int

to the data type pointed by its respective argument and not the pointer type.

finds out its return type and the types of its arguments. Added definitions
for non-configure systems config files, and introduced macro sreadfrom which
will be used on udp sockets as a recvfrom() wrapper.

Configure process no longer needs nor checks size of curl_off_t.
Library will now be built with _REENTRANT symbol defined.

from CVS tree.