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Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Detection of utmp/pty for *BSD.
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 10:25:02 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2010-04-22)

* Eric Blake wrote on Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 03:55:27PM CEST:
> On 09/09/2010 11:44 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >I think such knowledge has a place in autoconf.texi and maybe also
> >Autoconf macros, too.  This is not just interesting for gnulib.
> 
> Hmm - autoconf already has a node Header Portability, where this
> could be added.  But right now, gnulib's documentation is already
> much more extensive than autoconf's, it may be easier to just point
> to the gnulib manual with all its collected wisdom on these various
> headers than to try and maintain this information in two separate
> lists.

Sure, that's a good possibility too.  My only nit was that a few
things in the Autoconf manual are bit-rotting a bit, in comparison
to the knowledge collected by gnulib.  A link would help this, too.

Cheers,
Ralf



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