Re: Problem on system without gettimeofday

[Michael Goffioul]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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).

Thanks. I tried the patch and gettimeofday is not compiled in. However,
there's still a problem as sys/time.h does declare gettimeofday (not
rpl_gettimeofday), but gettimeofday.c unconditionally implements
rpl_gettimeofday. So I know I'll have a problem a link stage.

Michael.