Re: Allow to work on systems without Fcntl::flock implementation.

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Paolo,

* Paolo Bonzini wrote on Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 01:50:39PM CEST:
> On 09/08/2009 07:05 AM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >The patch is a bit of a hack, as it would be cleaner to put this right
> >into XFile.pm.  However, that would require us to either fork from the
> >Automake copy of the file, or also integrate this there.  WDYT?
> 
> Why not? (not a rhetoric question).

Why not *what*?  Why not fork the file?  Why not apply this patch as-is?
Why not integrate this change in Automake?  A wee bit of redundancy can
sometimes help get over the noisy channel that is non-native language.
;-)

Anyway, to integrate this in Automake would need a configure test in its
configure.ac (or a new m4 macro file) that isn't really needed there
currently (as Automake does not use XFile::lock at all).  If you insist,
I'll look into it.  However, my only real motivation to get Autoconf
running under DJGPP is so that I have an easy way to test configure
scripts under DJGPP by running the Autoconf test suite.

Thanks!
Ralf