[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#877562: libqb FTCBFS: uses uncached AC_RUN_IFELSE

[Ferenc Wágner]

Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/ClusterLabs/libqb/pull/269

"Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com> writes:

> If upstream Hurd people were so sure about it I'd strongly consider to
> follow their advice.

That's the plan.  Unfortunately, the POSIX interface defers the check to
runtime on amd64 for example, so we'll have to code that up.

> From what you talk about in this bug report, if the extra check is
> mostly to satisfy a bug in Hurd and they fix it, you could as well
> remove it.

When we have the runtime check, the configure check will degrade to a
mere optimization specific to exotic platforms guaranteeing a monotonic
clock.  Probably not worth keeping.

> But on the other hand, as Helmut says, if many other projects do it and
> since Hurd is not very popular, perhaps it's a wider problem than Hurd.

Yes, in the above sense it is, see also the discussion in the linked
upstream pull request.
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Regards,
Feri