[oe] linux-libc-headers version (reloaded)

Phil Blundell philb at gnu.org
Fri Feb 25 20:02:52 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:28 -0800, Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:11 AM, Andreas Oberritter
> <obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:
> > The point I was trying to make is that feature detection at compile time
> > is impossible, if the feature can be disabled by the kernel config
> > (which is the case for epoll and inotify, which in turn were the
> > examples discussed on the mailing list in May 2010). You need to do
> > runtime tests in programs intended to be portable.
> 
> which may not be easy to do for cross compiled packages unless they are patches
> to make this test dynamic

Isn't a runtime test dynamic by definition?  I'm not quite sure how
cross-compiling is relevant to this.

p.






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