Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix

[Eric Blake]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

[Adding gnulib: this thread started at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5717]

According to Eric Blake on 9/3/2007 4:50 PM:
> Martin Koeppe <mkoeppe <at> gmx.de> writes:
> 
> Hello Martin,
> 
>> thanks for the link and for pointing out the existence of 
>> AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. I think this is the right place to also 
>> require AC_INTERIX. (I first read the docs for 2.59 as these are the 
>> latest docs in Debian because of licensing issues.)
> 
> Sorry for joining the conversation late; I just discovered my bug-autoconf 
> list
> subscription was having issues.  I'm wondering if gnulib's 'extensions' module
> does this already, or if we should fold it into autoconf.

Anyway, on further investigation, gnulib's m4/extensions.m4 does not
currently mention _ALL_SOURCE, so it looks like we should fix this issue
in both autoconf and gnulib.

> 
>> Anyway, I applied the attached patch to 2.61 and then run the test 
>> suite. The results are also attached. The docs maybe should mention 
>> which functionality gets enabled by AC_INTERIX, but I have no idea on 
>> how to summarize it. I can do further tests/changes if required.
> 
> Personally, I'd rather have one macro that enables as many platforms as
> possible, rather than having to add a macro for every new platform.  As in
> AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.
> 

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             address@hidden
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin)
Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFG3JDJ84KuGfSFAYARAuQpAKC9/nxnZUUzj1aeYj/HDHm7vRmQzACgrzEt
XjazpKSo2345SkH39ESsGBw=
=eTgO
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----