On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 00:58 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > Actually, changes to configure.ac affect other users as well. Users of > > other architectures would have to run those checks. > > And what kind of problems would that cause? The symbols would > not be found, the test wouldn't pass, and other platforms don't > use the resulting config.h defines as well. Only the sparc64 > build uses this stuff.
The only problem that it will slow down the configure script. By the way, the checks for those functions should be done with the target compiler, that is after the second occurrence of CC="$TARGET_CC" in configure.ac. > I always check the status of my tree after running autogen.sh so I > would take care of all of these things. OK, I don't want to search who did it. I hope we'll get rid of this annoyance soon. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
