Use autoconf's endian check instead of the locally defined check so that we can determine the endianess without having to compile a program. Idea from http://www.security-lists.org/lists/libnet/2003/03/00001.html Also remove the old test from aclocal.m4. Rebased for libnet-1.1.5 on 2011/04/19. --- a/configure.in 2010-11-03 00:59:21.000000000 +0100 +++ b/configure.in 2011-04-19 17:08:47.087712604 +0200 @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ dnl dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script. +AC_PREREQ(2.52) AC_INIT(libnet, 1.1.5) AC_MSG_RESULT(beginning autoconfiguration process for libnet-${PACKAGE_VERSION} ...) AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM @@ -39,7 +40,16 @@ dnl And some custom things dnl -AC_LIBNET_ENDIAN_CHECK +AC_C_BIGENDIAN([ + AC_DEFINE(LIBNET_BIG_ENDIAN) + ENDIANESS="LIBNET_BIG_ENDIAN" + LIBNET_CONFIG_DEFINES="$LIBNET_CONFIG_DEFINES -DLIBNET_BIG_ENDIAN" +],[ + AC_DEFINE(LIBNET_LIL_ENDIAN) + ENDIANESS="LIBNET_LIL_ENDIAN" + LIBNET_CONFIG_DEFINES="$LIBNET_CONFIG_DEFINES -DLIBNET_LIL_ENDIAN" +], AC_MSG_WARN(cannot detect endianess. try setting ac_cv_c_bigendian to yes or no)) + dnl AC_LBL_LIBRARY_NET AC_SUBST(ENDIANESS)