On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:56 AM, Ismail Donmez <ism...@i10z.com> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Warren Young <w...@etr-usa.com> wrote: >>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ismail Donmez <ism...@i10z.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thats a hack :) >>> >>> Peter’s proposal is as far from a hack as it gets. >> >> What Peter suggests is telling autoconf to assume aclfromtext() does >> not exist on the system which is a hack and I already have a hack I >> could use. > > No. Once again, he’s suggesting that you write a *test* that checks whether > aclfromtext() exists here. Hypothesis -> test -> decision is science, not > assumption or hackery.
The check would succeed for all versions of Cygwin, the hack part is telling configure to not check for it and assume "no". ismail -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
