Re: solaris*.h

This is a discussion on Re: solaris*.h within the SNMP Coders forums, part of the Networking and Network Related category; Wes Hardaker wrote: > Thomas> What I ask myself is: why does it need to be hardcoded at all? &...


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Old 10-06-2005
Thomas Anders
 
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Wes Hardaker wrote:
> Thomas> What I ask myself is: why does it need to be hardcoded at all?
> Thomas> Shouldn't we determine it automatically at "configure" time?
>
> You might read the logs to see if there is some explanation there.
>
> There are something things that it'll be hard to test for under
> configure because it requires root privileges to do the test... Also
> it's possible that we may simply not want to do some things because
> they're broken under one functionality (which rings bells for me).


Requiring root privileges would be the most valid reason for hardcoding
instead of configure. Brokenness IMHO is not, since it should be
possible to check (in configure) for (non-)brokenness of the
functionality in question.


+Thomas

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