[Python-Dev] Good way of finding out what C functions we have? (original) (raw)

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Sep 30 17:58:07 EDT 2003

"Brett C." <bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

Shows how much I know; I found that last night but since it didn't say POSIX anywhere I thought it was part of another standard. I guess the "Issue 5" mention means that BASE is POSIX? Or is IEEE 1003.1 basically POSIX?

In the past, the various standards different slightly. Today, IEEE 1003.1 is the same as ISO/IEC 9945:2003 (parts 1..4), is the same as Single Unix version 3, is the same as XPG/5. It contains the OpenGroup's XBD, XSH, XCU, and XRAT documents. The UNIX product standard (which apparently hasn't been revised since '98) also covers XCURSES, XTI, and a few others; UNIX98 workstation also supports X11 and CDE.

What does happen if a HAVEfoo is actually required? Does the build fail or will configure halt and say that the build will fail if you proceed?

configure only checks for the feature. If the feature is absent, yet we use the feature without an #ifdef, the build just fails; that would be a bug.

Regards, Martin

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