[Python-Dev] Good way of finding out what C functions we have?

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Brett C." <bac at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> Right.  I was wondering if there are any checks in configure.in that
> if something was not available that Python itself would not compile
> *at all*.  I would suspect not since that is what the ANSI C/POSIX
> coding requirement is supposed to handle, right?

Mostly. There are several conditions under which configure would
abort; search for exit. One case is that you try to run it on a
not-longer-supported system.

Regards,
Martin