[Xastir-dev] acinclude.m4:XASTIR_DETECT_DEVICES

[Curt, WE7U]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Jack Twilley wrote:

> No, that's a bad idea.  It goes against the grain of autoconf and good
> software practices.  The code is very simple as it is: Test for the
> presence of /dev/ttyS0 and use it if it's there.  Test for the
> presence of another popular serial file name and use *that* if it's
> there.  I don't see any gain in changing it in any way other than
> adding in future popular serial file names.

Aren't you forgetting why we're revisiting the issue?  When
configure checks for "com1" on some WinXP boxes (and perhaps Win2k
boxes, I forget), it hangs.

If those boxes hang on the "com1" detect, they may also hang on a
"/dev/ttyS0" detect.  Only one way to find out:  Have someone with
the hang program try new code to see if it flys.  That's configure
hang is why I changed the code so that we no longer try to detect
"com1", but we look for another Cygwin signature, the
"/proc/registry" directory presence.

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