Subject: Re: More psiconv woes
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Mon Jan 22 2001 - 12:21:49 CST
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>I *do* care about portability. If I didn't, I wouldn't use autoconf at
>all. And I *do* know about strdup: it is tested using the autoconf
>AC_REPLACE_FUNCS(strdup) function. And, what's more, if autoconf does
>not detect it, it is linked in using the version in the compat
>subdirectory.
>
>So I see the following options:
> * Perhaps autoconf does not detect your lack of strdup correctly? If so,
> I would like to see its output on your machine.
> * Perhaps I forgot to include compat.h in a few source files? If so,
> you might get warnings that strdup is undeclared, but most C compilers
> won't really care until linktime, and then it should be picked up
> through libcompat.la.
> * Perhaps you just saw strdup used and did not test whether I took
> care of it properly?
>
>Please explain what your problem is, so I can fix it properly.
The problem, that you cannot fix, is that on MacOS < X there is no
autoconf, and autoconf is not easily portable on MacOS < X. That's
why I'm experiencing some trouble. But nothing I can't really fix.
Hub
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