On 03/14/2013 06:19 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote: > 1) What "interesting portability targets" have I left out? I only > went back in time as far as FreeBSD 7, and I didn't even try to get my > hands on any of the surviving proprietary Unixes; is this too > shortsighted?
Yes, I think so. We regularly get bug reports from people running HP-UX, AIX, etc. > 2) Autoconf currently probes for several of the headers in the "safely > assumed to exist everywhere" categories, notably in > AC_INCLUDES_DEFAULT. It seems to me that this is unnecessary. Would > patches to remove under-the-hood checks for the ubiquitous headers, > and deprecate macros that do explicit checks for them, be accepted? If it's safe to include them now, we should stop checking for them. > 3) It's a little tangential, but don't you think it's about time > AC_CHECK_HEADERS stopped doing all its tests two different ways? I would change this, yes. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
