On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:07:18AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Joe Orton] > > OK nice. Why does this require run-time detection rather than simply > > a smarter configure test (or apr_hints.m4 blacklist or whatever)? > > Because we (Debian) ship binaries rather than source code. Our users > run these binaries on both kernel 2.4 and kernel 2.6. Without runtime > detection you get two bad choices.
Oh, that argument again :) That fact makes this feature no different to many of the other features which APR detects at configure-time. Yes, APR could detect system features at run-time, and yes, doing so would be a complete maintenance nightmare having a small net negative run-time cost to 99% of users, and no, it's not worth doing. joe
