Fix inconsistency in conf.CheckFunc().

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index 6ee412c..b035acb 100644
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ RELEASE 0.97 - XXX
     "{building,cleaning} terminated because of errors" to "done
     {building,cleaning} targets (errors occurred during {build,clean})."
 
+  - Allow Configure.CheckFunc() to take an optional header argument
+    (already supported by Conftest.py) to specify text at the top of
+    the compiled test file.
+
   From Elliot Murphy:
 
   - Enhance the tests to guarantee persistence of ListOption
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py b/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py
index 4d6c831..76df30a 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/SConf.py
@@ -768,8 +768,8 @@ class CheckContext:
     #### End of stuff used by Conftest.py.
 
 
-def CheckFunc(context, function_name, language = None):
-    res = SCons.Conftest.CheckFunc(context, function_name, language = language)
+def CheckFunc(context, function_name, header = None, language = None):
+    res = SCons.Conftest.CheckFunc(context, function_name, header = header, language = language)
     context.did_show_result = 1
     return not res
 
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/SConfTests.py b/src/engine/SCons/SConfTests.py
index 1f6e65c..b704f62 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/SConfTests.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/SConfTests.py
@@ -475,6 +475,8 @@ int main() {
             # CheckFunc()
             r = sconf.CheckFunc('strcpy')
             assert r, "did not find strcpy"
+            r = sconf.CheckFunc('strcpy', '/* header */ char strcpy();')
+            assert r, "did not find strcpy"
             r = sconf.CheckFunc('hopefullynofunction')
             assert not r, "unexpectedly found hopefullynofunction"