-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Philip Prindeville on 7/14/2008 5:27 PM: | I'm looking at sox-12.17.9 and seeing in their "configure" file (which | claims to be generated via Autoconf 2.59) Newer autoconf versions are able to accurately determine type sizes when cross-compiling, making life much easier for porting to a cross-compilation platform. You may want to consider putting pressure on the sox maintainers to use a newer autoconf version for their next release. | | I'm also not sure why there's "ac_cv_sizeof_long" and | "ac_cv_sizeof_long_int", etc. except perhaps to make the cross-compiling | distro-manager's life hellish. :-) Unfortunately, the C standard specifies several alternative spellings for the same intrinsic type, so you have to worry about all of the possibilities. | | Likewise with the "ac_cv_sizeof_charp" versus "ac_cv_sizeof_char_p", That may (although I haven't checked) stem from a difference in 'char*' vs. 'char *', where the space is being converted to _. | and | "ac_cv_sizeof_char" versus "ac_cv_sizeof_unsigned_char" (are these | *ever* different???). C requires sizeof(char), sizeof(signed char), and sizeof(unsigned char) to all be equal to 1. Any compiler where this is not true is broken. Thus, any package that has a configure test for this is wasting time. A recent thread was posted proposing adding a warning if the user does AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([char]), but no one has implemented something that works on all the variant spellings. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@xxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh79eYACgkQ84KuGfSFAYA1hwCeLQSCu6JmmGf/GxXvq3abVFvV Pp8AoMQFJszyKgndpOvy+jFnw97M3G+U =dAQX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
