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Re: Convert 3.2 sources to ISO C90
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 10:54:29PM -0600, law@redhat.com wrote:
> In message <20020605.192105.111716507.davem@redhat.com>, "David S. Miller"
> writes:
> >
> > So what is sunfreeware.com doing right for Solaris folks that
> > the people hosting the HP stuff aren't getting right?
> A large part of it is fixincludes. On Solaris we're able to avoid lots of
> fixed includes via various schemes -- mostly because the Solaris header
> files are pretty close to what GCC needs. HPUX is a radically different
> story unfortunately.
>
> > This is a problem independent of moving 3.2 away from the
> > K&R requirement.
> Certainly. If it wasn't for fixincludes it'd be a hell of a lot easier to
> take a compiler built on version of the OS and use it on another.
Conveniently, I believe Geoff contributed the basis of code to run
fixincludes at install rather than build time last week... Packaging it
up appropriately should just be the matter of an hour or two.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer