[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 511750] Configure of prereleases 15.2-15.4 fail in OpenEmbedded MIPSEL Crosscompiler

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Tim-Philipp Müller changed:

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------- Comment #5 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2008-01-24 13:06 UTC -------
> ie, that openembedded can't handle the AC_TRY_RUN macros being used to check
> for POSIX_TIMER and MONOTONIC_CLOCK #defines.
> 
> In the long run, a better fix is probably to put these tests in the source code
> and switch things at compile time, but I'm reluctant to tackle that in the
> pre-release.
> 
> A simpler quick-fix is to add flags to configure to avoid the tests, like
> --have-posix-timers=yes/no/auto
> --have-monotonic-clock=yes/no/auto

Alternatively, it should be fairly straight-forward to change the AC_TRY_RUN to
AC_TRY_COMPILE (like #ifdef bla && bla > 0 ... #else #error "nope" #endif).


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