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On Jan 27, 2023, at 4:53 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 01:40:48 -0800
> Guy Harris wrote:
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>> *don't* support C99 inline? If not, we could just remove the call
>> from configure.ac and the definition from aclocal.m4.
>
> In 2002 in commit b1263c6 you w
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:53:28 +
Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
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> I do not understand yet if AC_LBL_C_INLINE could just disappear safely
> altogether instead of being replaced with AC_C_INLINE.
In order to play safe, it has been replaced with an AC_C_INLI
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2023 01:40:48 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
> wrote:
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> > I have also removed AC_LBL_C_INLINE and a conditional substitute for
> > Tru64 pfopen() from tcpslice. Interestingly, tcpslice and tcpdump
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On Jan 22, 2023, at 9:59 AM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
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> I have also removed AC_LBL_C_INLINE and a conditional substitute for
> Tru64 pfopen() from tcpslice. Interestingly, tcpslice and tcpdump,
> which don't call pfopen(), used to have this substitute, and
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Hello all.
I have removed some unused Autoconf macros here and there, including
AC_LBL_CHECK_LIB in tcpslice and libpcap. This macro still remains in
tcpdump, where it was a part of the initial git commit in 1999, and
where it became unused in 2001 (commit d57c77a), with the
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On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:57:30 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 19, 2023, at 3:20 PM, Denis Ovsienko
> wrote:
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> > * AC_LBL_SSLEAY -- is there anything useful to take from here?
>
> No, it's been replaced by the "Check for OpenSSL/libressl libcrypto"
> code in configure.
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On Jan 19, 2023, at 3:20 PM, Denis Ovsienko wrote:
> * AC_LBL_SSLEAY -- is there anything useful to take from here?
No, it's been replaced by the "Check for OpenSSL/libressl libcrypto" code in
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:53:21 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2023, at 3:32 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
> wrote:
>
> > As it turns out, there is another unused macro
> > (AC_LBL_HAVE_RUN_PATH), tcpslice became the first to lose this
> > luggage.
>
> Unuse
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On Jan 18, 2023, at 3:32 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
wrote:
> As it turns out, there is another unused macro (AC_LBL_HAVE_RUN_PATH),
> tcpslice became the first to lose this luggage.
Unused in libpcap back to 0.4 and tcpdump back to 3.4, so it may be another one
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:22:28 -0500
Michael Richardson wrote:
> I haven't heard a clear argument as to what autoconf/configure gets
> us today over cmake, and maintaining both seems a huge waste of
> energy.
There's a comment buried in one of the build files: a release tarba
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On Jan 18, 2023, at 1:07 AM, Denis Ovsienko wrote:
> Thank you for explaining the context Guy, it is very educational.
A significant part of what's in autoconf, and a significant part of what's in
at least some configure scripts, dates back to old UN*Xes.
ISO C and POSIX
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2023 18:35:58 -0800
Guy Harris wrote:
> If you're curious what AC_LBL_FIXINCLUDES is for, and why most
> platforms don't need it, continue reading.
Thank you for explaining the context Guy, it is very educational. Is
AC_LBL_UNION_WAIT of a similar origin? N
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On Jan 17, 2023, at 3:13 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
wrote:
> In tcpdump commit cee234c there are three messages changed in
> aclocal.m4, but only two messages changed in the resulting configure
> script. After a brief look it is clear that it is the third messa
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