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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:29:16 +0200
From: "Ralf S. Engelschall" <rse@engelschall.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: apache-1.3 STATUS
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In article <199808241256.IAA12944@devsys.jaguNET.com> you wrote:
> rse@hyperreal.org wrote:
>> 
>>        * header detection is broken; eg. sys/resource.h often requires 
>>          other includes first, etc.  This breaks things like RLimit*
>>          on many platforms.
>>   +      -- Ralf will try to solve this problem this week. 

> You know, this confuses me. Are we saying that the header detection
> "section" can't find sys/resource.h until we also have some additional
> #includes elsewhere? 

No, we have no chance here, I think.

> This doesn't make any sense. Now I can understand
> that for RLimit* to work, we need to include sys/resource.h and maybe
> other things (or maybe change the ordering), but I can't see how we
> cannot _detect_ the existance of sys/resource.h.

Currently I think the header detection should be really just
pre-processor-based and not compiler-based. Only this way we can avoid
problems. This way header dependencies are nonrelevant, aren't they?

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com