[VODZ] hickup with strtoll() and vasprintf()

[walter harms]

IMHO it would be ok to have a script (autoconf or not) that simply 
checks some critical stuff like gnu extensions and obviously long long 
(perhaps  some C99 stuff ?). busybox is used mostly with in a gnu 
environment (glibc/ulibc etc) so the people actualy needing that will be 
few.
question: who will maintain that ?

re,
  walter


Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 May 2006 12:17 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:57:19PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
>>> that strtoll() is missing i would call a bug.
>>>
>>> The better way would testing the system for critical stuff like gnu
>>> extensions (aka autoconfig) and provide the missing pieces.
>> Yes, i agree. I was thinking about adding .am and .ac, so you could
>> either use the manually written Makefiles which are already there or
>> (optionally) overwrite them by doing the usual configure && make check
>> install.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that some people will dislike even the option to use the
>> auto-tools, even if they don't have to use it..
> 
> I don't object to ./configure style tests in principle, but autoconf is just 
> evil.
> 
> Also, we have a configuration step right now.  defconfig, menuconfig, etc...  
> I'd rather not have both a ./configure step _and_ menuconfig, and menuconfig 
> was here first...
> 
> Rob