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I'm not sure if this is a great idea: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 05:31:03PM +0200, Nicholas Clark wrote: > - Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- > commit 4a3e97a030d2e5767f5d320cecdb2a7a3a72606b > Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> > Date: Fri Aug 23 16:32:08 2013 +0200 > > Move the thrice-repeated "64bitint is buggy?" test from hints to Configure. > > OpenBSD and its two* forks each have the same "is 64 bit int support buggy?" > test code as a callback unit duplicated in their hints files. As the code is > portable C, there seems to be no harm in moving it to Configure, and running > the test on all platforms. This reduces code duplication, and will reduce it > further if another OpenBSD fork appears. > > * This week. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Summary of changes: > Configure | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > hints/bitrig.sh | 59 -------------------------------------------------------- > hints/mirbsd.sh | 59 -------------------------------------------------------- > hints/openbsd.sh | 59 -------------------------------------------------------- > 4 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 177 deletions(-) but the stats are oh so tempting. The test code in question works (at least for me) on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX, so it seems to be portable enough to live in Configure. Given that BSDs seem to be breeding like rabbits* it seems to be a sensible move in case there's a third OpenBSD fork. Nicholas Clark * credit Leon Timmermans for that analogy. It feels sadly apt :-(Thread Next