On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:17, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Reimplement another handy convenience function from glibc. Âmemrchr() > searches from the end of a memory area for a particular character. ÂIt > is similar to strrchr() but takes a length argument and is > binary-safe. > > The whole-directory rename detection patch could use this to find the > last directory separator in a (possibly truncated) pathname. Maybe something like this for configure.ac: AC_CHECK_LIB([c], [memchr], [HAVE_MEMRCHR=YesPlease], [HAVE_MEMRCHR=]) AC_SUBST(HAVE_MEMRCHR) And documentation with the other HAVE_* variables at the top of the Makefile? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html