[Xcb] Compilation error...

[Ian Osgood]

On Jul 26, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Eric Anholt wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 08:00 +0200, Vincent Torri wrote:
>>> I just pushed a fix for this that I'd been doing before I read your
>>> email.  Hopefully it's working for you now.
>>
>> The HAVE_*** are defined when AC_CHECK_HEADER are used. According  
>> to the
>> autoconf doc, no current unix distribution does not contain  
>> inttype.h and
>> inttypes includes stdint.h (apparently, C99 specifies that). So  
>> maybe a
>> check for inttype.h should be sufficient, I think
>
> But random apps include xcb.h, don't they?  Are you saying that for  
> apps
> to use xcb they have to have the HAVE_* defined?
>
> Yes, inttypes.h should be safe to include always afaik (it's in many
> more places than stdint.h that I've seen), but for some reason people
> seem to prefer stdint.h.
>
> -- 
> Eric Anholt                     anholt at FreeBSD.org
> eric at anholt.net                 eric.anholt at intel.com

Eric,

Thanks for fixing this. I'm certainly a novice at cross-unix  
compatibility and what kinds of checks are allowed in which files.

Ian