getloadavg: Remove an unreliable safety check.

* m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Drop argument. Remove test whether
getloadavg.c is in place.
* modules/getloadavg (configure.ac): Drop argument of gl_GETLOADAVG.
Reported by Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>.
(cherry picked from commit 8d8a973ad831a93279c282e090d204413ed03f2f)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b6c1d1e..8d20573 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2011-05-28  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       getloadavg: Remove an unreliable safety check.
+       * m4/getloadavg.m4 (gl_GETLOADAVG): Drop argument. Remove test whether
+       getloadavg.c is in place.
+       * modules/getloadavg (configure.ac): Drop argument of gl_GETLOADAVG.
+       Reported by Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>.
+
 2011-05-26  Simon Josefsson  <simon@josefsson.org>
 
        * lib/gen-uni-tables.c: Say "gen-uni-tables.c" consistently.

diff --git a/m4/getloadavg.m4 b/m4/getloadavg.m4
index e58d29b..0e44b69 100644 (file)
--- a/m4/getloadavg.m4
+++ b/m4/getloadavg.m4
@@ -7,23 +7,19 @@
 # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
 # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved.
 
-#serial 2
+#serial 3
 
 # Autoconf defines AC_FUNC_GETLOADAVG, but that is obsolescent.
 # New applications should use gl_GETLOADAVG instead.
 
-# gl_GETLOADAVG(LIBOBJDIR)
-# ------------------------
+# gl_GETLOADAVG
+# -------------
 AC_DEFUN([gl_GETLOADAVG],
 [AC_REQUIRE([gl_STDLIB_H_DEFAULTS])
 
 # Persuade glibc <stdlib.h> to declare getloadavg().
 AC_REQUIRE([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS])
 
-# Make sure getloadavg.c is where it belongs, at configure-time.
-test -f "$srcdir/$1/getloadavg.c" ||
-  AC_MSG_ERROR([$srcdir/$1/getloadavg.c is missing])
-
 gl_save_LIBS=$LIBS
 
 # getloadvg is present in libc on glibc >= 2.2, MacOS X, FreeBSD >= 2.0,

diff --git a/modules/getloadavg b/modules/getloadavg
index 9db688b..c17281c 100644 (file)
--- a/modules/getloadavg
+++ b/modules/getloadavg
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdbool
 stdlib
 
 configure.ac:
-gl_GETLOADAVG([$gl_source_base])
+gl_GETLOADAVG
 gl_STDLIB_MODULE_INDICATOR([getloadavg])
 
 Makefile.am: