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Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix


From: Martin Koeppe
Subject: Re: autoconf enhancement for Interix
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 18:01:34 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Eric Blake wrote:

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[Adding gnulib: this thread started at
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.bugs/5717]

thanks for the link and for pointing out the existence of
AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS. I think this is the right place to also
require AC_INTERIX. (I first read the docs for 2.59 as these are the
latest docs in Debian because of licensing issues.)

Sorry for joining the conversation late; I just discovered my bug-autoconf list subscription was having issues. I'm wondering if gnulib's 'extensions' module does this already, or if we should fold it into autoconf.

Anyway, on further investigation, gnulib's m4/extensions.m4 does not currently mention _ALL_SOURCE, so it looks like we should fix this issue in both autoconf and gnulib.


Anyway, I applied the attached patch to 2.61 and then run the test
suite. The results are also attached. The docs maybe should mention
which functionality gets enabled by AC_INTERIX, but I have no idea on
how to summarize it. I can do further tests/changes if required.

Personally, I'd rather have one macro that enables as many platforms as possible, rather than having to add a macro for every new platform. As in AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS.

I have no problems if it's not named AC_INTERIX. I only thought it would be the way to go, i.e. AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS was only a collection of individual macro calls. Please add the test whereever you like. I'm not that familiar with writing m4 scripts and not with autoconf's internals either. I just copied AC_AIX.

Martin




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