[zeromq-dev] disabling epoll()

[Martin Sustrik]

On 10/04/2010 02:49 PM, Martin Lucina wrote:

>> 0MQ devs: Wouldn't it be better if we checked for the availability of
>> different polling mechanisms during the configure phase?
>
> Not possible. configure can only determine what your target C library is,
> it knows nothing about your target kernel.

What I recall Malo told me long time ago is that autoconf is able to 
compile and run a small user-supplied test program and defined the macro 
depending on whether it succeeds or fails.

Martin