oh. thats annoying. i guess it's somewhat understandable. But in that case, would you please fix the autoconf to actually bomb out, rather than to do its default thing and just silently undefine HAS_STDINT_H in autoconf.h ? I dont know the "nice" autoconf way of doing that. However, an alternative way of achieving a similar result, could be patching include/k5-platform.h to have, #ifndef HAS_STDINT_H #error stdint.h is now required by kerberos #endif