Re: [PATCH] Further improve cross-compilation guesses for midipix

[Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>]

Ørjan Malde wrote:
> > If on Linux, the result is 'guessing no (mishandles large arguments)',
> > it should be the same on systems that emulate the Linux system calls. Right?
> > 
> 
> No, we have handled the mishandling of large arguments and nanosleep passes all of gnulib's tests unlike linux.

OK. Then the assignment to 'guessing yes' was correct and only the comment
was lacking. I'm applying this:


2024-02-06  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>

	Further improve cross-compilation for midipix.
	Reported by Ørjan Malde <red@foxi.me>.
	* m4/nanosleep.m4 (gl_FUNC_NANOSLEEP): Improve cross-compilation guess
	for midipix.

diff --git a/m4/nanosleep.m4 b/m4/nanosleep.m4
index 38c0a5e71f..ff730b676c 100644
--- a/m4/nanosleep.m4
+++ b/m4/nanosleep.m4
@@ -116,10 +116,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([gl_FUNC_NANOSLEEP]
         *)     gl_cv_func_nanosleep=no ;;
         esac],
        [case "$host_os" in
-            # Guess it halfway works when the kernel is Linux
-            # and on systems that emulate the Linux system calls.
-          linux* | midipix*)
+            # Guess it halfway works when the kernel is Linux.
+          linux*)
             gl_cv_func_nanosleep='guessing no (mishandles large arguments)' ;;
+            # Midipix generally emulates the Linux system calls,
+            # but here it handles large arguments correctly.
+          midipix*)
+            gl_cv_func_nanosleep='guessing yes' ;;
             # Guess no on native Windows.
           mingw* | windows*)
             gl_cv_func_nanosleep='guessing no' ;;