[Xastir-dev] acinclude.m4:XASTIR_DETECT_DEVICES
Curt, WE7U
archer at eskimo.com
Tue Mar 23 17:05:00 EST 2004
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jack Twilley wrote:
> No, that's a bad idea. It goes against the grain of autoconf and good
> software practices. The code is very simple as it is: Test for the
> presence of /dev/ttyS0 and use it if it's there. Test for the
> presence of another popular serial file name and use *that* if it's
> there. I don't see any gain in changing it in any way other than
> adding in future popular serial file names.
Aren't you forgetting why we're revisiting the issue? When
configure checks for "com1" on some WinXP boxes (and perhaps Win2k
boxes, I forget), it hangs.
If those boxes hang on the "com1" detect, they may also hang on a
"/dev/ttyS0" detect. Only one way to find out: Have someone with
the hang program try new code to see if it flys. That's configure
hang is why I changed the code so that we no longer try to detect
"com1", but we look for another Cygwin signature, the
"/proc/registry" directory presence.
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