Re: question about AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE

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On 10/30/2010 01:56 AM, Vincent Torri wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> in the autoconf manual, it is said that AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE
> "performs all the actions of AC_HEADER_DIRENT". And in the doc of
> AC_HEADER_DIRENT :
> 
> "This macro is obsolescent"
> 
> Does it mean that AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE is also obsolescent ?

No, AC_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE is not obsolescent.  What is obsolescent is
needing to check for <direct.h> instead of <dirent.h> before using
d_type, if it is determined that d_type exists.

Documentation patches welcome to make this situation less confusing.

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Eric Blake   eblake@xxxxxxxxxx    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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