[Pkg-gnupg-commit] [gnupg2] 32/102: build: Remove obsolete tests for funopen and fopencookie.

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commit d755bcb89dbeaf6c7c1eca73ccabdf89b536c535
Author: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
Date:   Fri May 27 15:50:30 2016 +0200

    build: Remove obsolete tests for funopen and fopencookie.
    
    * configure.ac (AC_CHECK_FUNCS): Remove tests for funopen.
    --
    
    Meanwhile we are using the portable functions from libgpg-error.
    
    Signed-off-by: Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>
---
 configure.ac      |  2 +-
 doc/sysnotes.texi | 28 ----------------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 29 deletions(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d90921c..07d728a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1383,7 +1383,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS([waitpid wait4 sigaction sigprocmask pipe getaddrinfo])
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ttyname rand ftello fsync stat lstat])
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memicmp stpcpy strsep strlwr strtoul memmove stricmp strtol \
                 memrchr isascii timegm getrusage setrlimit stat setlocale   \
-                flockfile funlockfile fopencookie funopen getpwnam getpwuid \
+                flockfile funlockfile getpwnam getpwuid \
                 getenv inet_pton strpbrk])
 
 if test "$have_android_system" = yes; then
diff --git a/doc/sysnotes.texi b/doc/sysnotes.texi
index a8cea87..dec07bd 100644
--- a/doc/sysnotes.texi
+++ b/doc/sysnotes.texi
@@ -11,28 +11,6 @@ right now, however there are probably a lot of smaller glitches we need
 to fix first.  The major problem areas are:
 
 @itemize
- at item 
-For logging to sockets and other internal operations the
- at code{fopencookie} function (@code{funopen} under *BSD) is used.  This
-is a very convenient function which makes it possible to create outputs in
-a structures and easy maintainable way.  The drawback however is that
-most proprietary OSes don't support this function.  At g10 at tie{}Code we
-have looked into several ways on how to overcome this limitation but no
-sufficiently easy and maintainable way has been found.  Porting
- at emph{glibc} to a general POSIX system is of course an option and would
-make writing portable software much easier; this it has not yet been
-done and the system administrator would need to cope with the GNU
-specific admin things in addition to the generic ones of his system.
-
-We have now settled to use explicit stdio wrappers with a functionality
-similar to funopen.  Although the code for this has already been written
-(@emph{libestream}), we have not yet changed GnuPG to use it.
-
-This means that on systems not supporting either @code{funopen} or
- at code{fopencookie}, logging to a socket won't work, prompts are not
-formatted as pretty as they should be and @command{gpgsm}'s
- at code{LISTKEYS} Assuan command does not work.
-
 @item
 We are planning to use file descriptor passing for interprocess
 communication.  This will allow us save a lot of resources and improve
@@ -78,9 +56,3 @@ The periodical smartcard status checking done by @command{scdaemon} is
 not yet supported.
 
 @end itemize
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