[Plplot-cvs] plplot configure.ac,1.212,1.213

[Alan W. I. <ai...@us...>]

Update of /cvsroot/plplot/plplot
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv7141

Modified Files:
	configure.ac 
Log Message:
Comment out AC_CHECK_TYPE(caddr_t, char *) since we don't expect the broken
X systems this fixed in the past.  See discussion on the PLplot-devel list.


Index: configure.ac
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RCS file: /cvsroot/plplot/plplot/configure.ac,v
retrieving revision 1.212
retrieving revision 1.213
diff -u -d -r1.212 -r1.213
--- configure.ac	27 May 2006 18:37:59 -0000	1.212
+++ configure.ac	7 Aug 2006 18:37:14 -0000	1.213
@@ -217,13 +217,16 @@
 dnl Typedefs
 dnl =======================================================================
 
-dnl Some X11 headers require "caddr_t" even on systems that claim POSIX.1
-dnl compliance, which is illegal.  This makes it impossible to compile
-dnl programs that include X11 headers if _POSIX_SOURCE is defined.  I work
-dnl around this potential problem by just defining caddr_t to 'char *' on all
-dnl systems (unless it is set already), whether it will be needed or not.
+dnl In the past, some X11 headers required "caddr_t" even on systems that 
+dnl claimed POSIX.1 compliance, which was illegal.  This made it impossible
+dnl to compile programs that included X11 headers if _POSIX_SOURCE was
+dnl defined.  We used to work around this potential problem by just defining
+dnl caddr_t to 'char *' on all systems (unless it is set already), whether
+dnl it was needed or not. Now we ignore the issue because we don't expect
+dnl such broken X behaviour any more and because this kind of argument list
+dnl for AC_CHECK_TYPE is now deprecated in the autoconf documentation.
 
-AC_CHECK_TYPE(caddr_t, char *)
+dnl AC_CHECK_TYPE(caddr_t, char *)
 
 dnl The following is primarily for use in drivers/get-drv-info.c