[Dovecot] 1.0-test14: no sendfile() in Solaris 8

[Andreas Jaekel]

At 14:35 01/06/2004 +0300, you wrote:
>On 1.6.2004, at 13:13, Andreas Jaekel wrote:
>
>>The current CVS snapshot and 1.0-test14 will not build on Solaris 8
>>because it does not provide a sendfile() funtion.  It just has sendfilev().
>>Solaris 9 has sendfile(), though.
>
>Doesn't the configure detect that you don't have it? It shouldn't define 
>HAVE_SOLARIS_SENDFILE if it isn't there (if sendfile library doesn't have 
>sendfile() function).

No, it doesn't.  The test for the linux sendfile() function uses 
ac_compile, no ac_link.
So all you get is an "implicit declaration" warning in configure.log, but 
since the final check is
for test -z a.out configure will always happily detect linux sendfile.

Greetings,
    Andy