It's more robust in case the compiler allows pre-C99 implicit function
declarations. If an x86 intrinsic is missing and gets treated as
implicit function, the linking step will very probably fail. This
isn't the only way to workaround implicit function declarations but
it might be the simplest and cleanest.
The problem hasn't been observed in the wild.
There are a couple more AC_COMPILE_IFELSE uses in configure.ac.
Of these, Landlock check calls prctl() and in theory could have
the same problem. In practice it doesn't as the check program
looks for several other things too. However, it was changed to
AC_LINK_IFELSE still to look more correct.
Similarly, m4/tuklib_cpucores.m4 and m4/tuklib_physmem.m4 were
updated although they haven't given any trouble either. They
have worked all these years because those check programs rely
on specific headers and types: if headers or types are missing,
compilation will fail. Using the linker makes these checks more
similar to the ones in cmake/tuklib_*.cmake which always link.
tuklib_cpucores.c and tuklib_physmem.c don't include <sys/types.h>
even via other files in this package, so clearly that header isn't
needed in the tests either (no one has reported build problems due
to a missing header in a .c file).
The earlier version compiled but didn't actually work
since sysconf(_SC_PHYS_PAGES) always fails (or so I was told).
Thanks to Ole André Vadla Ravnås for the patch and testing.
Don't use #error to generate compile error, because some
compilers actually don't take it as an error. This fixes
tuklib_physmem on IRIX.
Fix incorrect error check for sysconf() return values.
Add AIX, HP-UX, and Tru64 specific code to detect the
amount RAM.
Add HP-UX specific code to detect the number of CPU cores.
Thanks a lot to Peter O'Gorman for initial patches,
testing, and debugging these fixes.
which now use AC_CACHE_CHECK. Using the cache variable,
configure now warns if there is no method to detect the amount
of RAM and recommends using --enable-assume-ram.
Separate a few reusable components from XZ Utils specific
code. The reusable code is now in "tuklib" modules. A few
more could be separated still, e.g. bswap.h.
Fix some bugs in lzmainfo.
Fix physmem and cpucores code on OS/2. Thanks to Elbert Pol
for help.
Add OpenVMS support into physmem. Add a few #ifdefs to ease
building XZ Utils on OpenVMS. Thanks to Jouk Jansen for the
original patch.
Lasse Collin