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Re: changes for approval, part three (solaris)
- To: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Subject: Re: changes for approval, part three (solaris)
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:25:57 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, libstdc++ at sources dot redhat dot com
> > 4) libio/_G_config.h now uses the GNU/Linux libc version.
> [...]
> > What is the purpose / intent of the current use of _G_config.h? At least
> > part of Phil's patch is working around a definition in _G_config.h which
> > is not appropriate for Solaris. Not surprisingly, AIX has problems with
> > the assumptions in _G_config.h as well.
>
> True, a lot of workarounds in a lot of places could go away if _G_config.h
> were generated from, say, _G_config.h.in and included a bunch of autoconf
> HAVE_ tests. I would be more than willing to do the work.
David's right. _G_config.h was being generated in v2 by a script. The
thought was to auto-gen _G_config.h via autoconf/automake on a
platform-specific way.
Don't worry about divergence at the moment. We periodically synch with
glibc.
Could you work this approach up please?
-benjamin