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Eli Collins updated HDFS-1619:
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    Description: 
Remove AC_TYPE* from the libhdfs build since we get these via stdint.

Currently configure.ac uses AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T 
and AC_TYPE_UINT16_T and thus requires autoconf 2.61 or higher. 
This prevents using it on such platforms as CentOS/RHEL 5.4 and 5.5. Given that 
those are pretty popular and also given that it is really difficult to find a 
platform
these days that doesn't natively define  intXX_t types I'm curious as to 
whether we can simply remove those macros or perhaps fail ONLY if we happen to 
be on such
a platform. 

Here's a link to GNU autoconf docs for your reference:
    http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Particular-Types.html

  was:
Currently configure.ac uses AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T 
and AC_TYPE_UINT16_T and thus requires autoconf 2.61 or higher. 
This prevents using it on such platforms as CentOS/RHEL 5.4 and 5.5. Given that 
those are pretty popular and also given that it is really difficult to find a 
platform
these days that doesn't natively define  intXX_t types I'm curious as to 
whether we can simply remove those macros or perhaps fail ONLY if we happen to 
be on such
a platform. 

Here's a link to GNU autoconf docs for your reference:
    http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Particular-Types.html

        Summary: Remove AC_TYPE* from the libhdfs  (was: Does libhdfs really 
need to depend on AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T and 
AC_TYPE_UINT16_T ?)

> Remove AC_TYPE* from the libhdfs
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-1619
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1619
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: libhdfs
>            Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
>            Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>         Attachments: HDFS-1619-C99.patch.txt, HDFS-1619.patch.txt, 
> hdfs-1619-2.patch
>
>
> Remove AC_TYPE* from the libhdfs build since we get these via stdint.
> Currently configure.ac uses AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T 
> and AC_TYPE_UINT16_T and thus requires autoconf 2.61 or higher. 
> This prevents using it on such platforms as CentOS/RHEL 5.4 and 5.5. Given 
> that those are pretty popular and also given that it is really difficult to 
> find a platform
> these days that doesn't natively define  intXX_t types I'm curious as to 
> whether we can simply remove those macros or perhaps fail ONLY if we happen 
> to be on such
> a platform. 
> Here's a link to GNU autoconf docs for your reference:
>     http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Particular-Types.html

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