I'm not a fan of autoconf and its not a solution on windows anyway.
The #define in the svn header would work on all platforms.
Barry
On Apr 4, 2005, at 17:19, kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> Barry Scott <barry@barrys-emacs.org> writes:
>> I've just been adding code to deal with detecting new API functions.
>> I've ended up with code like this:
>>
>> #if (SVN_VER_MAJOR == 1 && SVN_VER_MINOR >= 1) || SVN_VER_MAJOR > 1
>> #define PYSVN_HAS_CLIENT_ADD2
>> #define PYSVN_HAS_CLIENT_EXPORT2
>> #endif
>>
>> #if (SVN_VER_MAJOR == 1 && SVN_VER_MINOR >= 2) || SVN_VER_MAJOR > 1
>> #define PYSVN_HAS_CLIENT_INFO
>> #endif
>>
>> What would have made this all a lot easier is if the feature test
>> macros where
>> defined in the SVN headers.
>>
>> In svn_client.h how about having
>>
>> #define SVN_HAS_CLIENT_ADD2
>>
>> Then code that builds on top of svn can test for features and avoid
>> the version testing code.
>
> It's already possible to test for the presence of an interface
> (autoconf has ways to do this, for example, by attempting to compile a
> small program which calls the interface, and detecting success for
> failure). I think methods like that are the usual way to handle this
> situation.
>
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