Re: Call the AC_CHECK_HEADER macro on a condition

2016-04-18 Thread Earnie
On 4/12/2016 11:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > Also, checking for is pointless these days. You can portably > assume a C89 compiler (and these days, often a C99 compiler), which > guarantees is present. > But removing that check would thwart the purpose of autoconf being able to provide legacy

Re: OS400

2016-04-18 Thread Earnie
On 4/8/2016 6:25 AM, Iglesias, Gérard (FircoSoft) wrote: > Hello evrybody, > > We use autotools for our build factory wich build programs under a lot of > computers/OS, including mainframe. > > We succeeded compiling and linking executable (PGM) and static lib (BNDDIR) > under OS400 / Pase witj

Re: Call the AC_CHECK_HEADER macro on a condition

2016-04-18 Thread Paul Eggert
On 04/12/2016 08:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote: Also, checking for is pointless these days. You can portably assume a C89 compiler (and these days, often a C99 compiler), which guarantees is present. Although it's safe to assume C89ish (or even C99ish) these days, there is the possibility that it