[HDFS-1619] Remove AC_TYPE* from the libhdfs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.22.0
• Component/s: libhdfs
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Roman Shaposhnik
• Reporter: Roman Shaposhnik
• Created: 10/Feb/11 04:05
• Updated: 12/Dec/11 06:19
• Resolved: 07/Jun/11 06:47

Description

Remove AC_TYPE* from the libhdfs build since we get these via stdint.

Currently configure.ac uses AC_TYPE_INT16_T, AC_TYPE_INT32_T, AC_TYPE_INT64_T and AC_TYPE_UINT16_T and thus requires autoconf 2.61 or higher.
This prevents using it on such platforms as CentOS/RHEL 5.4 and 5.5. Given that those are pretty popular and also given that it is really difficult to find a platform
these days that doesn't natively define intXX_t types I'm curious as to whether we can simply remove those macros or perhaps fail ONLY if we happen to be on such
a platform.

Here's a link to GNU autoconf docs for your reference:
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/manual/autoconf/Particular-Types.html

Issue Links

• is related to: HDFS-2042 Require c99 when building libhdfs