On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 11:52:00AM -0700, Stuart Macdonald wrote:
> Further, given the above, how would I/others deal with cases where 2.4.7 has
> a function that is not found in RedHat's own 2.4.7-10 but is found in 2.4.8
> and then goes away in 2.4.9 and above?
I've rapidly discovered that this checking on kernel version thing will not work.
I don't know why people still recommend it for external modules.
Instead, you must check for completion.h and add a define if it exists, then work
off that. Using autoconf, I do :
AC_MSG_CHECKING("whether completion.h exists")
if test -f $KINC/linux/completion.h; then
BKCFLAGS="$BKCFLAGS -DCOMPLETION_H"
AC_MSG_RESULT("yes")
else
AC_MSG_RESULT("no")
fi
regards
john
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