[svn-r27705] Merge of r27699 from trunk

This revision removed some obsolete configurations from the Autotools.
Since this configuration code was already removed in 1.8, this
just brings ing some useful comments.

Also removes some unused symbols from the CMake H5pubconf.h.in file.

Tested on: h5committest

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index bd0818e..36e3a75 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ AC_CONFIG_COMMANDS([pubconf], [
 ## configure is currently running by using the --host=foo flag.
 ## For machines on which HDF5 is often configured, it can be convenient
 ## to specify the name of the machine rather than its canonical type.
+##
+## There are currently no hosts, but if there were they would be
+## listed by hostname and the alias would point to a file in
+## the config directory:
+##
+##case $host_alias in
+##  <some host>)
+##    host_alias=<config file in config directory>
+##    ;;
+##esac
+
 AC_CANONICAL_HOST
 AC_SUBST([CPPFLAGS])
 
@@ -1488,7 +1499,7 @@ fi
 
 ## ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 ## Check for MONOTONIC_TIMER support (used in clock_gettime).  This has
-## to be done after any POSIX/BSD defines to ensure that the test gets
+## to be done after any POSIX defines to ensure that the test gets
 ## the correct POSIX level on linux.
 AC_CHECK_DECL([CLOCK_MONOTONIC],[have_clock_monotonic="yes"],[have_clock_monotonic="no"],[[#include <time.h>]])