Sorry for top-posting -- phone mail client sucks.

I thought the autoconf ac_run_check was the test that people were  
questioning. That calls posix_fadvise to see if it crashes at  
configure time.

The guc run-time check is checking for known-buggy versions of glibc  
using sysconf to check what version of glibc you have.

-- 
Greg


On 1 Jan 2009, at 23:11, "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

>> Now that there's an actual run-time sysconf check for the buggy  
>> glibc called
>> by the guc function we arguably don't need the autoconf check_run  
>> check
>> anymore anyways.
>
> Isn't that the check I just removed for you, or are you talking about
> some other check that can also be removed?
>
> ...Robert

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