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Re: Problem with new acl code and cdrtools


On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:46 AM, Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2016, at 12:56 AM, Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 6:14 AM, Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com> wrote:
>>> On Feb 8, 2016, at 9:59 AM, Ismail Donmez <ismail@i10z.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thats a hack :)
>>>
>>> Peterâs proposal is as far from a hack as it gets.
>>
>> What Peter suggests is telling autoconf to assume aclfromtext() does
>> not exist on the system which is a hack and I already have a hack I
>> could use.
>
> No.  Once again, heâs suggesting that you write a *test* that checks whether aclfromtext() exists here.  Hypothesis -> test -> decision is science, not assumption or hackery.

The check would succeed for all versions of Cygwin, the hack part is
telling configure to not check for it and assume "no".

ismail

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