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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
Cc: ac131313@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rfa] PROBLEMS (i[3456]86-*-linux*): Require glibc 2.1.3 or later
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 18:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030225181015.GP910@gnat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200302251710.h1PHAhv07449@duracef.shout.net>

> This could be detected at autoconf time, something like:
> 
>   AC_MSG_CHECKING(for uintptr_t support in glibc)
>   AC_CACHE_VAL(ac_cv_c_uintptr_t,
>   [AC_TRY_COMPILE(, [
>     #include <stdint.h>
>     uintptr_t foo;
>     ],
>     ac_cv_c_uintptr_t=yes, ac_cv_c_uintptr_t=no)])
>   AC_MSG_RESULT($ac_cv_c_uintptr_t)
>   if test $ac_cv_c_uintptr_t = yes; then
>     AC_DEFINE(HAVE_UINTPTR_T)
>   fi
> 
> Then gdb_thread_db.h could produce a better error message if it
> gets compiled.  It's used only on *-*-*linux* and s390-*-*,
> not everywhere.

Why not even fail at autoconf time?

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-25 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-25 17:10 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-02-25 18:10 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2003-02-25 19:43 ` Andrew Cagney
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-25 22:01 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-02-25 20:08 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-02-25 18:13 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-02-25 15:49 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-02-25 16:33 ` Andrew Cagney

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