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Re: Problem on system without gettimeofday


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Problem on system without gettimeofday
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:05:11 -0700
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According to Michael Goffioul on 2/21/2010 4:09 PM:
> I think that because of the outer "if test $ac_cv_func_gettimeofday =
> yes; then",
> REPLACE_GETTIMEOFDAY can only be set to 1 on systems that already
> provide an implementation of it.

Correct.  But a platform that lacks gettimeofday altogether should also
compile the replacement file (but with REPLACE_GETTIMEOFDAY left alone).

> Is this a bug? If not, what is supposed to happen on system that do not
> provide gettimeofday?

An inadvertent regression, particularly since the documentation already
mentions that mingw lacks the function.  I will commit this after testing
a cross-compile to mingw; let me know if it helps your situation (I don't
use MSVC).

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-801-349-2682
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