[BRLTTY] commile error on Debian

[Raoul]

On 18 Sep 2014, at 15:34, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
The second solution 	 is more general and concern more people.

for me i vote  for the first but not before  some days.

> Samuel
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