The macro itself is broken in autoconf-2.13 but this is caused by newer kernels etc rather than anything else. Very, very few packages use autoconf-2.13, let alone AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG, so not going to worry about it much. Do as Fedora and Debian do and skip the test for it. https://bugs.gentoo.org/406723 https://bugs.gentoo.org/677926 --- a/testsuite/autoconf.s/syntax.exp +++ b/testsuite/autoconf.s/syntax.exp @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ send_user "Checking for syntax errors in the specific tests...\n" set script {s/^AC_DEFUN(\([^,]*\).*/\1/p} -set macros [exec sed -n $script $srcdir/../acspecific.m4] +# XXX: AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG skipped for bug #406723, bug #677926 +set macros [exec sed -n $script $srcdir/../acspecific.m4 | grep -v AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG] foreach mac $macros { if { [string match "*F77*" "$mac"] && [catch {exec which g77} ignore_output] } then {