Re: [Groff] additions to autoconf files

[Bernd Warken]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:02:46AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
 
> The current policy is to add a test only if there is a failure on a
> particular system.  Today, there are many standards like POSIX which
> define a lot of header files, and most operating systems follow it.
> Older platforms are dying so I really don't see a reason to blow up
> the configure script with those tests.

That is not a policy, but trial and error, and error, and error,...
Why no doing it right in the first place?  autoconf just 
defines/undefines some varibles/macros.  This does not hurt.

I'll need type bool and uint32.  These will have to be checked.

Bernd Warken