Fixed and restored commit 9a4b4a3d3b27fe4a7ff6d0b8724ce1c06b5917eb.

Using AC_CHECK_MEMBERS instead of AC_CHECK_MEMBER.  I don't know why
the former works but the latter doesn't.

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 234ff3c..2c76cea 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -587,13 +587,15 @@ dnl ----------------
 dnl CHECK STRUCTURES
 dnl ----------------
 
-dnl FIXME: This test could work on Linux if _BSD_SOURCE was #define'd
-dnl according to localtime(3).
-dnl
 dnl For platforms such as FreeBSD that have tm_gmtoff in struct tm.
 dnl (FreeBSD has a timezone() function but not a timezone global
 dnl variable that is visible).
-AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct tm.tm_gmtoff],,,[#include <time.h>])
+dnl On Linux, $AM_CPPFLAGS contains -D_GNU_SOURCE, which makes
+dnl tm_gmtoff visible.
+nmh_saved_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
+CPPFLAGS="$AM_CPPFLAGS $CPPFLAGS"
+AC_CHECK_MEMBERS([struct tm.tm_gmtoff],,,[[#include <time.h>]])
+CPPFLAGS="$nmh_saved_CPPFLAGS"
 
 AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE