On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:04:03AM +0000, Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > On 2007-06-20, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > not that this would get the clock running, though... > > They could start by stopping to claim that it is there. All the > documentation I have found says either that a) _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK > is defined when CLOCK_MONOTONIC is available, or b) must be defined > to the value 200112L (or so). I'd prefer the latter (since it's a > POSIX version check too), but glibc is also crapware, and the header > /usr/include/bits/posix_opt.h simply defines: > > /* The monotonic clock might be available. */ > #define _POSIX_MONOTONIC_CLOCK 0 > > Note the moronic "might". > > But, oh, in the world of FOSS herdware it is _forbidden_ for things to > work just like that: you're supposed to use autocrap scripts (broken > and unmaintainable themselves) to test for every possible form of brain > damage the author of some other piece of software -- and distributors -- > might be suffering from. > > -- > Tuomo > yes. but would/could you integrate pierre's patch nevertheless (for the time being, that is: I've heard that apple promises major improvements w.r.t. POSIX compliance and such with the next major OS upgrade -- which, on the other hand, needs not to be true, of course)?
joerg
