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From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Problem with new acl code and cdrtools
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 08:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFo71_5sh6bXathmV=s0vmqW8raKh28Gw_N3-0HYhFAtv=nHiA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAF8618B-B333-4391-91B9-17174761484C@etr-usa.com>

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:56 AM, Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thats a hack :)
>>>
>>> Peter’s proposal is as far from a hack as it gets.
>>
>> What Peter suggests is telling autoconf to assume aclfromtext() does
>> not exist on the system which is a hack and I already have a hack I
>> could use.
>
> No.  Once again, he’s suggesting that you write a *test* that checks whether aclfromtext() exists here.  Hypothesis -> test -> decision is science, not assumption or hackery.

The check would succeed for all versions of Cygwin, the hack part is
telling configure to not check for it and assume "no".

ismail

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-09  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-08 10:02 Ismail Donmez
2016-02-08 13:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-08 13:31   ` Ismail Donmez
2016-02-08 14:10     ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-08 14:14       ` Ismail Donmez
2016-02-08 14:36         ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-08 16:10           ` Ismail Donmez
2016-02-08 19:24       ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2016-02-09  9:36         ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-02-08 16:29     ` Peter Rosin
2016-02-08 17:00       ` Ismail Donmez
2016-02-09  4:14         ` Warren Young
2016-02-09  7:57           ` Ismail Donmez
2016-02-09  8:46             ` Warren Young
2016-02-09  8:50               ` Ismail Donmez [this message]
2016-02-09  8:57             ` Peter Rosin
2016-02-09  9:06               ` Ismail Donmez
2016-02-09 10:13                 ` Peter Rosin

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