Peter Eisentraut <pe...@eisentraut.org> writes:
> On 01.04.25 17:57, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I speculate that the meson test for preadv/pwritev has never worked
>> for macOS either, and we haven't noticed because nobody has tried to
>> build with meson on a machine with low enough default deployment
>> target to not have preadv/pwritev.
> Agreed. Attached is a patch that implements the test more along the
> lines of how Autoconf does it. This gives correct results for me for
> strchrnul() in various configurations.
Cool. Let me try it here, and I'll push if no problems arise.
> Btw., I see on the buildfarm that strchrnul() is also available on
> FreeBSD, DragonFly BSD, NetBSD, and musl (Alpine Linux). So perhaps
> some of the comments ought to be rewritten away from that it's a
> glibc-specific extension.
OK, will do something about that --- maybe like "originally glibc
specific, but later adopted by other platforms"?
regards, tom lane
