[Libvir] [PATCH] header file changes for Solaris

[Daniel Veillard]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:59:41PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:06:55AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > >On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:26:39PM -0400, Mark Johnson wrote:
> > >>This patch has the includes need to build on Solaris.
> > >>I've been using ifdef linux & ifndef linux to distinguish
> > >>between solaris and linux at this point.
> > >
> > >Looks ok aside from
> > [..]
> > 
> > No, I don't agree.  We should use configure.in to test for the presence 
> > of header files and then do things like:
> > 
> > #ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H
> > #include <strings.h>
> > #endif
> 
> For strings.h I don't see the point in making it conditional really, unless
> we're going to do the same for every single other header we include. The
> strings.h header is always present on Linux. In recent times stuff that was
> previously in strings.h has moved to string.h, but they're still in the 
> original header too. So we should always include both string.h & strings.h 
> for maximum portability.

  Hum, I don't think they are really the same. In libxml2 I do a configure
test for HAVE_STRINGS_H but string.h is included without checks in a lot of
places.

Daniel

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