Re: AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED in cross-compilation

[Eric Siegerman]

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 10:16:47PM -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% Earnie Boyd <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   eb> Russ Allbery wrote:
>   >> Paul D Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>   >> 
>   >> > I notice that the AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro has no option for how
>   >> > it behaves during cross-compilation.

Why not fall back to "setbuf(stdout, NULL)" if, for whatever
reason, you can't determine the right setvbuf() calling sequence?
Sure it's less efficient -- perhaps much less -- but it'll
produce correct results without guessing.

(Background: gmake only uses setvbuf() to make stdout
line-buffered.  I presume the reason is to make sure the output
from make and its subprocesses interleaves properly.)

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