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List:       autoconf
Subject:    Re: AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG
From:       Jim Meyering <jim () meyering ! net>
Date:       2002-05-30 20:02:27
Message-ID: 87k7plpfos.fsf () pixie ! eng ! ascend ! com
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Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 04:53:10AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> > Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 11:19:17 +0100
>> > From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
>> >
>> > Why is that check there?
>>
>> So that your software distribution is portable to hosts that don't
>> have a working getloadavg.
>
> Oh.. this means having to include a working version of getloadavg.c in
> autoconf just to pass the regression test. Hmm.. Is there a standard place
> to find a replacement getloadavg.c for this purpose? (Grabbing the one from

This is the one I use:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/fileutils-4.1.8.tar.gz


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