From: Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: 65319-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#65319: compilation error on Android (Termux)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:33:36 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkf7jhen.fsf@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4343512.eakKr8yo8t@nimes> (Bruno Haible's message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:50:11 +0200")
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> Po Lu wrote:
>> Does Gnulib guarantee that the gl_CHECK_FUNCS_ANDROID stuff will
>> continue to exist in the future? If so, I'm inclined towards using
>> that.
>
> Yes. This macro is used over 100 times in Gnulib, has not seen any
> problem reports in the last 6 months, and is prefixed with 'gl_'
> not '_gl_'. Therefore it's very unlikely to go away.
>
> Note this macro's documentation:
>
> ...
> dnl Thus, the question "does the OS have the function func" has three possible
> dnl answers:
> dnl - yes, in all versions starting from the given API level,
> dnl - no, in no version,
> dnl - not in the given API level, but in a later version of Android.
> ...
> dnl This macro sets two variables:
> dnl - gl_cv_onwards_func_<func> to yes / no / "future OS version"
> dnl - ac_cv_func_<func> to yes / no / no
> dnl The first variable allows to distinguish all three cases.
> dnl The second variable is set, so that an invocation
> dnl gl_CHECK_FUNCS_ANDROID([func], [[#include <foo.h>]])
> dnl can be used as a drop-in replacement for
> dnl AC_CHECK_FUNCS([func]).
>
> Bruno
Thanks. I'll install the change you proposed in short order, and am
closing this bug.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-15 20:28 bug#65319: compilation error on Android (Termux) Bruno Haible
2023-08-16 1:35 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-16 1:49 ` Bruno Haible
2023-08-16 3:15 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-08-16 9:50 ` Bruno Haible
2023-08-16 12:33 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
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