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

[Rob Landley]

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
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