[Xcb] [Xcb-commit] configure.ac (fwd)

[Vincent Torri]

and forward to the ML...

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Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2011 06:22:34 +0100 (CET)
From: Vincent Torri <vtorri at univ-evry.fr>
To: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>
Cc: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at kemper.freedesktop.org>,
     xcb-commit at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Xcb-commit] configure.ac



On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> 
> On Mar 4, 2011, at 12:56, Vincent Torri wrote:
> 
>> the patch below is not the best we can have. The usual way to check stuff 
>> like that (a function working or not) is by writing a test case and running 
>> it, and not by testing versions of OS. Something like
> 
> Your change assumes that the OS running the application will be the same OS 
> building it.  That is not true in many cases involving building for OSX.

as you build just after configuring, i would say that your commit assume that 
the OS running the application will be the same OS configuring it. How is it 
different ?

Vincent