Re: Serious problems installing -CURRENT (was: UPDATING)

[Bruce Evans]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> According to Bruce Evans:
> > ntp should use the POSIX feature test macros for these functions.
> > Unfortunately, it uses autoconfig, and we turn this into hard coded
> > configuration by committing the generated config.h file as a source
> > file.
> 
> Wouldn't work. Autoconf finds the sched_* functions regardless of their
> presence in the kernel config. file. Autoconf is a compile-time utility
> whereas we'd need something more sophisticated to get this right.

ntp would work if it were configured POSIXly.  autoconf cannot work.
Another problem is that the presence of the sched_* functions in
headers is independent of kernel options, so compile time POSIX
feature tests don't work.

Bruce



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