At 10:15 AM +0100 3/26/08, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:41:56 -0500, "Craig A. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> At 9:27 AM +0100 3/24/08, H.Merijn Brand wrote: >> >On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:29:25 -0500, "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >wrote: >> > > > > > In configure.com, add test for sys/poll.h.
> > > FYI, this test was added by the updated metaconfig tools, not by any >> > patch from the perl community, so it missing in any of the OS's that >> > do not use Configure was not a big deal. >> > >> > However, this is good housekeeping. I'd love to see the remaining OS >> > variants updated too. >> >> On Mac OS X, I'm seeing: >> >> <poll.h> found. >> Hmm. Based on the hints in hints/darwin.sh, >> the recommended value for $i_poll on this machine was "undef"! >> Keep the recommended value? [y] >> >> Do all the hints files need to be updated? The IO extension includes >> poll.h unconditionally, so pretty much everything must have it. I was wrong about that. IO includes its own local poll.h, and ext/IO/poll.h has #if (defined(HAS_POLL) && defined(I_POLL)) || defined(POLLWRBAND) # include <poll.h> #else #ifdef HAS_SELECT I'm also confused about i_poll vs. i_syspoll. Only the latter is new. So if the Mac OS X (Leopard) hints are wrong, it is only for i_poll, not the new i_syspoll. >I obviously underestimated the effect of this automatically being added >by the new configuration stuff. > >If poll.h is automatically always included, we are either doing it wrong >or we have no alternatives, in which case the check would be void. I can >remove it if that would be preferred. Probably ignoring me would be safer. But I am genuinely confused about the difference, if any, between poll.h and sys/poll.h. If they are just different locations for the same thing, should Perl really have two configuration settings? -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
