Daniel Rall wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Garrett Rooney wrote:
>
>
>> On 9/21/06, Kamesh Jayachandran <kamesh@collab.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>> Find the attached patch and log which in my opinion a correct way to
>>> detect apr_hash_clear in an available apr.
>>> Tested the same in apr-0.9.7 and apr-1.3.0.
>>>
>> Honestly, I think it's silly to waste people's CPU time on autoconf
>> checks for this. We know what version of APR it will show up in, so
>> there's no reason to jump through the hoops of compiling a test
>> program to see if it's there.
>>
>
> Furthermore, we'd have to add additional autoconf checks the next time
> we needed an API from APR which isn't present in all the versions of
> it we support. Using a macro is more easily supportable.
>
Even further more, if it doesn't work on Windows, it can't go in.
Autoconf doesn't work on Windows. QED.
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Received on Wed Sep 27 21:05:52 2006