configure script errors out on OpenBSD 4.8

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. export AUTOCONF_VERSION="2.65"
2. autoreconf
3. ./configure

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Makefiles is the expected output, but this is what I see:

checking for u_int8_t... yes
checking for int8_t... yes
checking for uint8_t... yes
checking for u_int... yes
checking size of char... 1
checking size of unsigned char... 1
checking size of short int... 2
checking size of unsigned short int... 2
checking size of int... 4
checking size of unsigned int... 4
checking size of long int... 8
checking size of unsigned long int... 8
checking size of long long int... 8
checking size of unsigned long long int... 8
checking size of sa_family_t... 1
checking for /proc/pid/fd directory... no
checking for msg_accrights field in struct msghdr... no
checking for msg_control field in struct msghdr... yes
checking if libc defines __progname... yes
configure: error: No 8-bit unsigned int type found



What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Got the latest clone from mercurial repository
OpenBSD 4.8


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Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 19 Jul 2011 at 6:29