From: Pavel Roskin <pro...@gnu.org> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:19:42 -0400
> 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. This is not a serious issue. The configure run is very compact and efficient and my changes aren't going to materially change this in any way whatsoever. > 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. Sure, I can fix that. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
