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Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: proposed gnulib-related additions to Autoconf |
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:23:22 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:
> I wonder if adding 'at configure time' at the end of that sentence would help.
Will do.
> Should we also provide a collector macro that ensures that all C99 types
> and bounds are available, rather than having the user list so many macros
> in their configure.ac? Something like AC_TYPE_C99_TYPES might be a
> reasonable name.
If there's a need for it we can add it, but it would take a long time
to execute. C99 defines a lot of types.
The gnulib stdint module does a lot of this already. I'll mention it.
> Should we also document that a d_ino of 0 on older platforms implies a
> deleted file,
Yes, I'll do that.
> My personal inclination here is that since the cygwin community
> always recommends upgrading to the latest version, it is okay if we
> don't special-case cygwin in AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_INO.
Sounds good to me. Thanks.