Re: AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG

[Patrick Welche]

On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 01:43:38PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:53:10AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:19:17 +0100
> > > From: Patrick Welche <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > Why is that check there?
> > 
> > So that your software distribution is portable to hosts that don't
> > have a working getloadavg.
> 
> Oh.. this means having to include a working version of getloadavg.c in
> autoconf just to pass the regression test. Hmm.. Is there a standard place
> to find a replacement getloadavg.c for this purpose? (Grabbing the one from
> my libc might not be a good idea..)

I see this was fixed on 2002-06-07
        * tests/mktests.sh (ac_exclude_list): Don't check
        AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG as it requires getloadavg.c which is not shipped.

Thank you!

Patrick