[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] configure: check for sysctl.h explicitly

[Andreas Rheinhardt]

Aman Karmani:
> From: Aman Karmani <aman at tmm1.net>
> 
> HAVE_SYSCTL is used to guard #include <sys/sysctl.h>, so make sure
> we only define it when that header is present.
> 
> In recent glibc, the header was removed:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/glibc-cvs/2020q2/069366.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aman Karmani <aman at tmm1.net>
> ---
>     configure: check for sysctl.h explicitly
>     
>     HAVE_SYSCTL is used to guard #include <sys/sysctl.h>, so make sure we
>     only define it when that header is present.
>     
>     In recent glibc, the header was removed:
>     https://sourceware.org/pipermail/glibc-cvs/2020q2/069366.html
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Aman Karmani aman at tmm1.net
> 
> Published-As: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/releases/tag/pr-ffstaging-49%2Ftmm1%2Fsysctl-chk-v1
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg pr-ffstaging-49/tmm1/sysctl-chk-v1
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/ffstaging/FFmpeg/pull/49
> 
>  configure | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index df69d39669..d2e0ec402d 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -6282,7 +6282,7 @@ check_func  setrlimit
>  check_struct "sys/stat.h" "struct stat" st_mtim.tv_nsec -D_BSD_SOURCE
>  check_func  strerror_r
>  check_func  sysconf
> -check_func  sysctl
> +check_func_headers sys/sysctl.h sysctl
>  check_func  usleep
>  
>  check_func_headers conio.h kbhit
> 
> base-commit: 01f46f18dbcdf323ceb4fdff7358cf3ca71366e6

What exactly do we need from said header? You intend to include it if it
available, but we should only include it if it needed.

- Andreas