[BRLTTY] commile error on Debian

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Sep 18 09:34:52 EDT 2014


Dave Mielke, le Thu 18 Sep 2014 09:24:52 -0400, a écrit :
> [quoted lines by Raoul on 2014/09/18 at 15:03 +0200]
> 
> >> My /usr/include/pthread.h is in version 2.16 of the glibc headers 
> >> package. Which release of this package (I'm not sure what Debian calls it) is 
> >> on your system?
> >> 
> >Version 2.11.3
> 
> Okay. It seems that they were added in 2.12. Would upgrading your system be 
> something you'd consider doing? Other alternatives, on our end, would be:

Can't the presence of the function be detected in configure.ac? these
are really non-standard functions.

BTW, the test

#ifdef __USE_GNU

is wrong: one is not supposed to use __* macros, they are not part of
the API and can change without any notice.

Samuel


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