Replace fork with try_fork in testsuite?

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Thu May 5 17:16:00 GMT 2005


Paolo Carlini wrote:
> Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
> 
>>If you want me to add HAVE_{MKFIFO,FORK} let me know, and I'll fix
>>try_mkfifo while I'm at it.
> 
> 
> Indeed, this is what I was thinking...

OK.

>>This will mean, however, that these defines end up in c++config.h,
>>even though they'll be unused in the library proper. 
> 
> This is rather "strange" isn't it? But cannot really hurt, I think. If
> you agree, please go ahead.

Yes, it's weird, but I think harmless.  Benjamin said it was OK to have 
testsuite-only messages in the translation files that ship, so I think 
it should also be OK to have some testsuite-only macros in the 
c++config.h that ships.

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