Re: [Libvir] [PATCH] header file changes for Solaris

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 09:06:55AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 05:26:39PM -0400, Mark Johnson wrote: >>> This patch has the includes need to build on Solaris. >>> I've been using ifdef linux & ifndef linux to distinguish >>> between solaris and linux at this point. >> Looks ok aside from > [..] > > No, I don't agree. We should use configure.in to test for the presence > of header files and then do things like: > > #ifdef HAVE_STRINGS_H > #include <strings.h> > #endif For strings.h I don't see the point in making it conditional really, unless we're going to do the same for every single other header we include. The strings.h header is always present on Linux. In recent times stuff that was previously in strings.h has moved to string.h, but they're still in the original header too. So we should always include both string.h & strings.h for maximum portability.