[MacPorts] #38582: RFE: update the configure.ac file in base to silence some warnings produced by autoscan

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Thu Jun 13 11:39:10 PDT 2013


#38582: RFE: update the configure.ac file in base to silence some warnings produced
by autoscan
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  Reporter:  egall@…      |      Owner:  macports-tickets@…
      Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal       |  Milestone:
 Component:  base         |    Version:  2.1.3
Resolution:               |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:               |
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Comment (by egall@…):

 I don't think any of these macros can actually fail, so I don't see why
 they'd need fallback code. They're just for adding more information about
 the user's system to their `config.log` and to their `config.h` (which I
 guess MacPorts doesn't use, but it could do so easily...). Also it looks
 like a lot of the macros currently in `configure.ac` were originally added
 with an older version of `autoscan`, this would be just updating those to
 a more recent version. Anyway I'm planning on editing a table into this
 post showing more about these macros:
 ||= Macro =||= contents of line `autoscan` is referring to when it says a
 file wants this macro =||= context (how the line is used) =||= human
 explanation for how adding the macro will be useful =||
 ||= `AC_CHECK_FUNCS([dup2])` =||= =||= =||= =||

 (coming back to this later...)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/38582#comment:6>
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