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Isn't that what autoconf is for?

Isn't that what autoconf is for?

Posted May 21, 2009 10:50 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: That's silly. You can have strlcat() and strlcpy(), yet be compatible by sbishop
Parent article: EGLIBC: Not a fork, but a glibc distribution

Doesn't autoconf check for these sort of things? I would assume packages that compile on BSD and GNU systems already have #ifdef HAS_STRLCAT or something similar.


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Isn't that what autoconf is for?

Posted May 21, 2009 17:10 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

This is about binary compatibility, not source compatibility. `Drop-in replacement' means that one doesn't have to compile applications anew when one exchanges one glibc for the other.

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