On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:04:09PM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> 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.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > --- a/configure
> >> >> > +++ b/configure
> >> >> > @@ -2310,7 +2310,9 @@ if test "$?" != 0; then
> >> >> >  
> >> >> > -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

This is practically useless since it does not allow regular expressions.
I get matches for unix_lockf, lockfile_foo and lockfile_bar and about
a trillion hits for stuff with sync in the name.

Diego
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