Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:

> On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 11:23:16AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 10:23:17AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>> >> Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> writes:
>> >> 
>> >> > On some (BSD) systems _POSIX_C_SOURCE masks function definitions in
>> >> > system header files.  Avoid the #define in that case.
>> >> > This allows eliminating some BSD-specific hacks.
>> >> > ---
>> >> >  configure        |    4 +++-
>> >> >  doc/general.texi |    8 --------
>> >> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>> >> >
>> >> > diff --git a/configure b/configure
>> >> > index 2b5aeab..51ec963 100755
>> >> > --- a/configure
>> >> > +++ b/configure
>> >> > @@ -2310,7 +2310,9 @@ if test "$?" != 0; then
>> >> >      die "C compiler test failed."
>> >> >  fi
>> >> >  
>> >> > -add_cppflags -D_ISOC99_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112
>> >> > +add_cppflags -D_ISOC99_SOURCE
>> >> > +check_func_headers unistd.h swab -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112 &&
>> >> > +    add_cppflags -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200112
>> >> 
>> >> We need to be more careful here since this will omit the define on any
>> >> system lacking that function entirely.  This could be any non-POSIX
>> >> system or a POSIX system without the X/Open extensions.  Defining
>> >> _POSIX_C_SOURCE for non-POSIX systems is of course a bit odd.
>> >
>> > What about running a two-staged test then: Pick some function to test
>> > for and see if it is available without but not available with the
>> > POSIX flag set.  If both of these conditions trigger, skip adding
>> > the POSIX flag to our CPPFLAGS.
>> 
>> That's what I was thinking.  Perhaps something slightly less obscure
>> than swab() could be chosen though.  Pick something with an XSI label
>> from http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/unistd.h.html
>> gethostid, lockf, nice, or sync might be good choices.
>
> None of these are actually used in Libav either.  I don't see any
> better choice right now though.  Do you have a suggestion which
> one of those four is the most common and thus least likely to
> be missing on some strange system?

Do a google code search: http://www.google.com/codesearch

-- 
Måns Rullgård
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